The Leduc Naturalist: Exclusion devices for bird feeders

The Leduc Naturalist: Exclusion devices for bird feeders

While cat lovers are everywhere, it has to be gut-wrenching to watch someone’s pet attack birds and squirrels making use of a bird feeder. Marauding cats can not only climb the legs of stand alone platforms, but can hunt and leap from wooden fences, trees, posts or even from a crouch on the ground. Trying to exclude felines from feeders can be daunting unless offerings hang prohibitively high and far from all vertical structures. There is a way …