As voracious as SQs are, they don’t seem to eat meat. The cat food is either dried up canned wet, or pieces of dry cat food. So SQs don’t eat.
Besides, tho I have baffles on feeder poles, plenty of bird seed ends up on ground & SQs share (?) that w doves & other ground feeders. I also sacrifice much seed to SQs on my long deck rail top & below it, because many birds (like var. sparrows, including juncos) prefer to eat from that flat surface rather than from feeders. It is more like the ground. That part of deck is a darkened mess since I have been feeding birds on it for 32 years! Now have a heated bird bath/drinker on it, too. Well used. I have a big separate roofed/screened part for me & the indoor cats! Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Randolph Ross <randolph.ros...@gmail.com<mailto:randolph.ros...@gmail.com>> wrote: How do you keep squirrels from getting what you put out for crows? We have a family of 3 that enjoy watching. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 11:38 AM Donna Lee Scott <d...@cornell.edu<mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Yesterday, when I was scattering on ground some leftover indoor cat food near backyard feeders for the crows - from a little white plastic dish - all of a sudden a bird flew in from behind me and almost landed on my hand that held the dish! I wore dirty white winter gloves. But I guess it then saw I was a heinous human, & it quickly veered right & flew away. It might have been a Blue Jay (whitish under-tail feathers), but it happened so fast I did not get a good look. At first I thought it was a Sharpie, but tail feather color & size were not right for that. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
