Lara
Friend of the Arts
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic Coast
To keep snakes away from your precious baby birds in your backyard birdhouses, and squirrels away from bird feeders, has anyone tried using a Slinky on a pole with any success? I think it works, but you need a tall pole for squirrels and maybe grease the PVC pipe too. I've never tried it.
Some buy one of those wrought iron "shepherd's poles", slide the Slinky onto the pole and hang the birdhouse from that. They say not to hang your bird feeder from a tree because the snake can enter from the top...although you can slide a Slinky down the hanger from the top I suppose.
Squirrel videos below. I couldn't find any snake videos using the Slinky. Does anyone have any suggestions other than this that work?
How to:
Works:
It didn't work for this guy so he added a greased PVC pipe:
Now it Works...Go to 17:50 of the 19 minute video...
Some buy one of those wrought iron "shepherd's poles", slide the Slinky onto the pole and hang the birdhouse from that. They say not to hang your bird feeder from a tree because the snake can enter from the top...although you can slide a Slinky down the hanger from the top I suppose.
Squirrel videos below. I couldn't find any snake videos using the Slinky. Does anyone have any suggestions other than this that work?
How to:
Works:
It didn't work for this guy so he added a greased PVC pipe:
Now it Works...Go to 17:50 of the 19 minute video...