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I've made a fake nest box with a fenn trap in it to try to protect my mother's walnut tree. I have hung the box from a bough of the tree to keep it out of the way of her various animals, using four anchoring points so it does not sway around in the wind a lot. I have also hung a bird peanut feeder underneath to give the squrriels something to investigate. The trap itself is baited with a pat of peanut buttter.

 

Unfortunately the day after I set the trap the squrriels started stripping the local hazel trees, so I guess they will not be intrested in anything else for a few days. My question is, how often will the peanut butter need changing?

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You will be checking the trap daily so you can see the peanut butter anyway ?. I had to top mine up daily if there wasn't a squirrel in the trap wood mice or slugs where eating my peanut butter

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just having the box there will be enough for the squizzers to investigate with out the need for the feeder, why not use the walnuts as bait if that is what they are eating

 

As the birds have finished nesting now the box I made had pop holes on opposite sides for access rather than top access. Are the squrriels still likely to investigate with it being fairly open?

 

Good idea about the nut bait. This year's Walnuts are not quite ripe enough even for squrriels, but I colud nip to Tescos or scour the area for a missed green hazel nut.

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You will be checking the trap daily so you can see the peanut butter anyway ?. I had to top mine up daily if there wasn't a squirrel in the trap wood mice or slugs where eating my peanut butter

 

 

So far the peanut butter is still untouched. Which is why I was wondering if it needed changing periodically.

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split maize works wonders and am a fan of the tunnel at bottom tree or bird table

 

I always set the tunnels at the bottom of trees on the shoot too mate, and never fail to catch.....

 

Thanks for your replies. That sounds like a good method but I am cautious about using traps on the ground in this case. I know they need to be set in tunnels but the tree in question is in area where my mother's animals have access. Including in-to-everything-pain-in the-bum long necked geese and a large in-to-everything-pain-in the-bum digging dog. There is also another tree where squrriels are causing a problem, but that is in a boundary hedge of a cattle grazed field. I am hoping if I can make an off the ground trap work to build a second one. Both problem trees are surrounded by private land, but visable to a footpath. Hence the 'disguse'.

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split maize works wonders and am a fan of the tunnel at bottom tree or bird table

 

I always set the tunnels at the bottom of trees on the shoot too mate, and never fail to catch.....

 

Thanks for your replies. That sounds like a good method but I am cautious about using traps on the ground in this case. I know they need to be set in tunnels but the tree in question is in area where my mother's animals have access. Including in-to-everything-pain-in the-bum long necked geese and a large in-to-everything-pain-in the-bum digging dog. There is also another tree where squrriels are causing a problem, but that is in a boundary hedge of a cattle grazed field. I am hoping if I can make an off the ground trap work to build a second one. Both problem trees are surrounded by private land, but visable to a footpath. Hence the 'disguse'.

make a box type tunnel using 150mm fence wood and on the 2 gable ends drill a 70mm hole to allow access to only small rodents you can fix this to the ground with wire or put bolders round it to stop dogs or gees geting to the trap, all else fails get a live catch trap so you can let go any unintended targets hope this helps a bit

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