It took us 12 years to grow this little plot of home yard big enough to entice squirrels to our house. Took it from a flat barren of tree farm field, to a lovely neighborhood yard today.
Our squirrels are big enough to haul fully loaded dried corn cobs from a neighbors house two yards away, over two six foot privacy fences, straight up, about 25 feet, to this tree crook.
We also have a guard dog to keep the squirrels at bay. She’s half German Shepherd, and half Aussie Shepherd. Unfortunately, or is it fortunately for the squirrels, this is how she spend much of her days.
Yep! That’ll strike the fear of something in those squirrels!!
Squirrels won’t come into my yard
The dog once caught one that was raiding the bird feeder.
Ever since that day it’s been his mission in life to rid the world of bushy tailed tree rats.
Right now we have 8 big squirrels, half a dozen deer and 30 turkeys feeding in the yard. We only had one big tom turkey till last week and then all of a sudden 29 others showed up from somewhere. I have a German Short Hair and she goes nuts when the turkeys show up.
Ive counted over 30 squirrels in the backyard at once. I swear I saw one coming across the yard wearing a BIB…!! Turkeys; 3 doe whitetails live in the back and stray into the “lawn” area at times…and birds out the wazoo. Five different types of woodpeckers including nesting pileated which are BIG birds.
25 lbs of black oily sunflower seeds each week. All the animals love to chow down at "Sully’s Place…lol
I recall a line from a while back “Lucky, lucky squirrels.”
That’s a great shot of your watch dog. I bet he would really like to watch that albino squirrel. Never saw one of those before. Even that brute Kerry has would probably run the other way seeing that little critter.
I envy you your dog man. Has he got a brother?
We hate those bushy tailed rats.
We have many species of birds here that we love to watch year round.
We can’t keep any feeders for them as these nasty rodents tear them to pieces. They raid anything we put out for the birds. I hate it as they really need the seed this time of year.
I’ve threatened to shotgun 'em but the wife won’t allow that.
If anyone wants any of the tree rats they’re more than welcome to all they can catch and relocate as far as possible from our home!
Heritage Angler you know you lusted for that pelt the moment you saw it. If I were Deb I would at least try a live trap and a little judicious barbering.
Put corncobs or cracked corn out for the squirrels. Put it at the other end of the yard from the seed. The squirrels would much rather have the corn and the birds would rather have the seed. You are not going to beat them.
