Who else loads up birdseed with cayenne pepper ?

[04 commemorative]

I buy it at the Dollar Tree and mix a bunch in and watch the show....Birds are not affected at all and it is a source of vitamin C....squirrels and deer.....well they don't come back :lol:

https://birdslife.co.uk/using-cayenne-pepper-in-bird-seed/

[86RAG]

I just tried this last week. Didn't bother the birds at all, but didn't bother the squirrels either. I put 3 tablespoons mixed into a little over a pound of feed, too. They ate that shit up. They even managed to knock the feeder over and made a huge mess on the ground, then feasted on it! I hate the little ****ers! :mad:

[Rodnok1]

Guess I'm lucky here, the squirrels just eat the deer corn and seeds that fall to ground from feeders the birds and guineas don't eat. I put 4 to 6 ears of corn put couple times a week, guy planted deer corn last year in the field next door so it was free just picked up what harvester missed.

[Steve_R]

It’s fun watching the raccoons eat this. :lol:

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[86RAG]

This is the leftover carnage from the little bastards. You can see the brownish stain still evident from the cayenne pepper!

[04 commemorative]

I just tried this last week. Didn't bother the birds at all, but didn't bother the squirrels either. I put 3 tablespoons mixed into a little over a pound of feed, too. They ate that shit up. They even managed to knock the feeder over and made a huge mess on the ground, then feasted on it! I hate the little ****ers! :mad:

I add much more than that to the seed...go to Dollar Tree and but a bunch of it...it works but not with that small amount

[ZipZap]

Squirrels here just take the leftovers on the ground and dried corn we throw out. The big kids on the block are the magpies, flickers and jays. They would mess a squirrel up if it was up on the feeder. We had a magpie chase a coyote off of a kill last year:rofl: Also, I think that the squirrels here have some sort of predilection to not be a pinata for all the hawks and eagles that hang around. Bears are snoozing now, so we don't have to worry about them messing up our bird area.

[snide]

Squirrels here just take the leftovers on the ground and dried corn we throw out. The big kids on the block are the magpies, flickers and jays. They would mess a squirrel up if it was up on the feeder. We had a magpie chase a coyote off of a kill last year:rofl: Also, I think that the squirrels here have some sort of predilection to not be a pinata for all the hawks and eagles that hang around. Bears are snoozing now, so we don't have to worry about them messing up our bird area.

I haven't seen a magpie in decades.

[ZipZap]

I haven't seen a magpie in decades.

We have a "family" of about a dozen or so. I never saw one until here in the Rockies. They're actually pretty big for a yard bird. When the family comes in, they basically clear the place. They can empty a cylinder in less than a day. I'll try and get some pics:seasix: