For years I told people that squirrels didn't like safflower. Until we had to
stop using a particular hopper feeder for it after squirrels figured out how to
get the rubber stopper out and would spend copious amounts of time hanging down
into the feeder stuffing themselves. Now, it's possible that it was only one
particular squirrel, but I definitely now tell people to take that safflower
advice with a grain of salt!
Alyce QuinnBurnt Chimney, VA
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:38:19 -0400
From: Emily Southgate <ewbsouthgate@xxxxxxxxx>
To: VA-BIRD <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [VA-bird] safflower seed and squirrels
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Safflower seed is no panacea! A friend in Winchester got a safflower seed
feeder because of problems with squirrels. It hung for a month with no
business from birds, but today he had a squirrel climbed down to the
feeder, took a seed, climbed onto a branch and ate it and repeated this for
a half-hour, eating maybe 50 seeds. No other seed had ever been in the
feeder. Has anyone else had this problem?
