How to protect your bird feeder from hungry squirrels in 5 steps

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This can be a challenge, since squirrels are incredibly agile and resourceful.

Here are five ways to keep squirrels at bay:

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Fortunately, birds seem to like them just fine.

Any mix of these will be popular with birds while being unpalatable to squirrels.

Since the birds are not sensitive to capsaicin, they will happily eat the spicy seeds with no bother.

Its slippery surface means they won’t be able to clamber up, either.

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