Squirrels are destroying my Chinese elm!

[Michael P]

I find a blowgun works quite well, too. It's also nearly silent.

Where did you get your blowgun? Always looking for new anti-squirrel weaponry.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Where did you get your blowgun? Always looking for new anti-squirrel weaponry.

Wow, good question. I've had it since I was 13/14ish? Let's just generalize and say it's ±30 years old. A squirrel was the first thing I shot with it. 20 feet straight up a tree, right through the chin, sticking out the top of its head. I was proud and ashamed simultaneously.

 

[baldone]

Try rubber snakes

 

[baldone]

I had birds that kept trying to build nest on my porch. I had Squirrels getting on top of my house from my privacy wall. The rubber snakes stopped both from happening.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Try rubber snakes

LOL
That will work, assuming they don't meet the same fate as my neighbor's fake snakes. He put some in his mulberry tree, and a Mississippi Kite swooped down and took it one day. He showed me on his RingCam.

Where did you get your blowgun? Always looking for new anti-squirrel weaponry.

If you're looking for natural "cures," maybe get a falcon or red-tailed hawk.

 

[Michael P]

My avian veterinarian was also a falconer. He would not fly his birds at squirrels because the squirrels would bite their toes off. He told me that I could put any squirrels I killed in the freezer and he would happily feed them to his hawks.