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Another Mammal Robbing Our Feeders

January 20, 2020

Not the expected kind of mammal. I have never seen them do this before; maybe they have been doing it at night? Last year I tried to deal with the squirrels by first adding some cayenne pepper to the seed mix. It worked… for about ten minutes. The first mammal visitors took one sniff and … More Another Mammal Robbing Our Feeders

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