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Originally Posted by wendyquat
Just be glad you only have problem with squirrels! When cardinals started pecking on my window I went out and bought a feeder and sunflower seeds. I enjoyed watching the cardinals for a couple of days but was dismayed to see 3 mice in my feeder one night. We decided to bring the feeder into the lanai at night and woke up the next morning to mice droppings all over the lanai floor and table and a 3" round hole eaten through the lanai screen. Needless to say, we got rid of the feeder and bird food!
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When I bought my Tampa house, the pool screen already had holes in it where rodents had chewed through to get to the previous owner's storage bags of additional feeder.
I now have two large capacity feeders and I only buy enough seed to fill them with nothing left over to store.
My house is near a lake and for a brief time some rats were coming up from the lake to go to the feeders. I set rat traps for a few days and killed them off. I've had no more rat problems.
This is Florida. Varmints wander through your yard regardless of whether or not you have a feeder set up. For me the benefits outweigh the negatives.