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From: chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: A Rookie Birder
Summary: water, flowers, bugs
Keywords: feeders,nesting,squirrels
Message-ID: <3668@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 19:13:28 GMT
References: <10982@grebyn.COM> <432@oravax.UUCP>
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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	Beat the squirrels by using something other than seed that
they won't eat -

	- put out a bird bath or elevated water source
		(this should attract all birds, especially
		 if there is a gurgling noise)

	- plant flowering plants
		(you get birds that eat nectar of the insects
		 that fly around the flowers)

	- keep wetting and turning up the dirt in your area, which
		should attract insect eaters

	or: use very small seed, which I don't think the
		squirrels will eat