While installing bird feeders on your property is an excellent way to attract a variety of beautiful, feathered creatures, it will also bring nuisance pests. To help you make sure only your avian friends are feasting on your backyard feeders, the animal control professionals at American Bio-Tech in New Milford, CT, suggest a few effective tactics for barring squirrels, raccoons, and other hungry pests from your birds’ food.

Here are a few easy, reliable methods for reserving your bird feeders for your winged visitors:

• Purchase Pest-Proof Feeders: In recent years, manufacturers have started making feeders that are extremely difficult for pests to access. They are only accessible to birds: The dispenser holes are small enough for their beaks alone, and there is nowhere for larger wildlife to perch along the edges.
• Install Pole Baffles: If you want to take your animal control tactics to the next level, install baffles. Ideally, you will want to connect a wire to two poles or trees that are approximately 10 feet apart. By hanging the feeder from this wire at least a few feet off the ground, you lower the chances of other wildlife reaching it.
• Schedule Pest Removal: As a last resort, you can always contact a wildlife control company to inspect your property, assess the problem, and provide a long-term solution. After finding ways to minimize an animal’s damage to your property, they can offer to remove the pest altogether in a humane and safe way.

If you’ve been watching squirrels drain your feeders of birdseed, try executing one of these ideas to put an end to it. To get rid of the pests for good or learn more about humane animal control, call American Bio-Tech at (860) 355-1231 or visit them online today.