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I feed birds during winter.
I have seed in Home Depot 5 gal. bucket + top.
Will squirrels eat through bucket to get seed.
I have grown to have great respect for the abilities of these critters.
If sucessful attack is eminent, will a rubber snake, picture of the Shrub (GW Bush), etc. scare or discourage a seed raid?
Thanks,

I use a 5 gal bucket too.  Have not ever had a squirrel or a mouse eat through it to get to the seed.  Bags are eaten through in a heartbeat.  It also depends on the seed.  I have pretty much switched to the Safflower seeds, and squirrels don't like them as much. They'll eat them, but may not go out of their way for them.  Most birds seem to like them just fine.

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I have a metal pail and top. Probably racoons can open even that, if it were left outside.

     For a squirrel it's a matter of target priority! If it's easier to get food somewhere else they'll go for it! The energy expenditure to eat through a bucket?

     I live in Southern California, I've never seen a squirrel around my general area, my 52 years! Two weeks ago, I hear, what I think is a very unusual bird sound, so I step outside, just from curiousity! When I looked up in the tree, I thought, WHO.. the... %$*#! put that up there. Thinking somebodies putting a stuffed animals in the liquid amber!

     It was a gray tree rat looking and barking right at me!

     Funny, for most people they would of said "Tree"! But those interested in guitars say Amder, Ash, Oak, Aspen, Jack.....

     I got all my neighbors trees pegged!

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Red squirrels and Gray squirrels or any squirrel for that mater other than ground squirrels(prairie dogs)have never lived out her in the high desert of West Texas. .. But guess what has moved into my pecan trees. you got it! Red squirrels. This is the first season I have ever seen any out here. in the wild that is. My uncle on the other side of town use to raise them but they were caged and provided for.

I think the introduction of Afghanistan and Enderica Pine trees to this region some 30years ago now provided a suitable habitat.

We add cayenne pepper to our bird feed. Our squirrels don't like it, but the birds don't seem to notice.

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I have heard that that works.  You can even use Tabasco, which sticks to the shells. 

My father used to put it on my fingers when I bit my nails.  He never figured out that it added flavor to otherwise flavorless fingernails.    I finally quit when I went to Nam.   Good thing.  Couldn't play classical very well without them, well, even as well as I can, 

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