[NatureNS] Raccoon Problem

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From: NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:02:17 -0400
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I end up doing both: hanging the feeders on a clothesline and taking them in at night. The racoons inevitably will figure out how to get to the feeders no matter what you do once they have found your offerings. It is only a matter of time. So if you can remove them at dusk you should.

If my local raccoon cannot easily get to the food part of the feeders it simply takes them and walks off with them. Wired, nailed, tie-wrapped- nothing stops him or her. I have lost Suet feeders, seed feeders and Hummingbird feeders. Somewhere in the nearby woods there must be a nice stash of bird feeders but I have never found it.

Nancy
E Dalhousie, Kings Co.
On 2017-11-24, at 9:02 PM, Hubcove@aol.com wrote:

> We are infested with raccoons and solved the problem by hanging the feeders from a clothes line in the back yard. The squirrels still climb the line but no raccoons.
> Peter Stow
> Hubbards
>  
> In a message dated 2017-11-24 8:37:47 P.M. Atlantic Standard Time, duartess@EastLink.ca writes:
>  Always have put up bird feeders/suet/peanut feeders during the Fall & Winter, but, after having all my feeders being pillaged and destroyed by all the raccoons here in the greenbelt behind my home on Glenwood Ave., Dartmouth... will not do so this year...I know, I should bring them in every night, but I work shift work...Just doesn't work for me...will throw some black-oil sunflower seed within the multi-flower tangle hedge back there, but that is it...
>  
> Gayle MacLean
> Dartmouth...

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