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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15598
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 18 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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Love the laid back cat Henry!
Not sure there is any real way to stop squirrels except an air gun pellet in the head, but Vasline might upset them a bit. I didn't realise they could climb smooth metal Jam Lady.
We haven't really got into the biochar market Gregotyn. We will see how much 'fines' we produce in the future and if we continue to get a reasonable quantity, may try marketing it a bit harder. So far our limited trials haven't been very successful. All British charcoal should have a similar calorific value per cubic measure I think, but not sure about imported. It has to be stabilised physically, so they use all sorts of things including starch, and it is rumoured, concrete dust for that, so the calorific value might vary tremendously.
You have been doing well with log nets. Would it be possible for you to reduce the number of days you work so that you cut your hours that way? You would be doing fewer miles, but get the same amount of money for the times you did go to work.
Noticed one of the baby bluetits in the front forks for the tractor had got most of the way up the tube, so was being fed ahead of its siblings. Hope it didn't hog all the food, but looks as if they will be out of the nest soon. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 18 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Have tried the Vaseline, buzzy. Was not an ideal solution - reapplication, greasy fingers, birds - especially woodpeckers, titmouse, nuthatch - like to land on pole then shift over. Especially aggravating for Himself as he made this wonderful swinging bracket so I could easily move it over to refill, with a widget to keep it from swinging when in use.
I have read that a bowl shaped baffle over the pole will work. Pole has a flange at the bottom to help secure it in the ground so how does the baffle fit over that?
PVC pole over the pole, too smooth for squirrel to climb. Same issue with flange.
I told a friend about the wretched squirrel climbing up the screen door. Yesterday she heard the crows cawing and carrying on. There was a large red tailed hawk on the ground under the bird feeder. It flew off with a squirrel in its claws. Nature raw in tooth and claw!
We have another friend who shoots the squirrels, claims they learn and after shooting a couple the rest stay away for a couple of years. I have my doubts, don't want to shoot them. After all, we are - in effect - baiting them in. But if the hawks want to serve as organic pest control I have no objections. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15598
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15598
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 18 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Pussifer, used randomly for either cat. Pretty Boy, as in "who's a pretty boy" - ditto.
Domino has a weird habit. He waits until we are both in bed for the night. Lights out. He fishes a small toy mouse out of their toy bin and with the mouse clenched in his jaws starts to caterwaul, quite loudly, as he comes upstairs. Mmmr rowrr, mmrr rowrr. With a sort of rising note towards the end of each string of sounds as though he is asking a question.
Not every night, mind you. But frequently. He drops the toy mousie with a clunk, sort of randomly - in our bedroom, in the hallway, in the bathroom. Anywhere from one to three mousies, each requiring a separate trip. If more than one, still dropped in random places.
And never brings one upstairs in the daytime, or when the lights are on at night. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15598
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 18 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Clever little pests, squirrels! The red is dying out and the grey taking over. I have seen a small pocket of reds in North Wales about 20 years ago and many years ago in Scotland. My local greys don't cause me any trouble that I know of so if they are about I watch them and leave them alone, but 100% on ingenuity in the film.
I have done very little over the weekend, but chop wood. As long as I do 2 nets a day then I am ahead. I tend to saw one day and chop the next and seem to get 5 nets in the 2 days, aim is around 250 by the end of October, more would be good! I plan on gong to the Show in July, MR and will have a look at the kindling machines and see what is about. Failing that I will get an engineer to make something that takes the sting out of hand chopping wood. I have a design in mind, but I have no where near the ability to make anything with a motor attached!
Thinking of your attempted burglar, Cassandra, I would have waited till he got near and doused him in hot water with an 'Ooh I didn't see you there and a half hearted apology! |
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