It has been a long time coming, but the grey squirrels have finally started to take a serious interest in my feeding stations. The sudden rise in activity follows a long quiet spell caused by a bumper crop of beechmast and acorns in my locality. The simple fact was that squirrels had little reason to visit my feeders when they had such an abundance of natural food available.
Things changed quite dramatically during the prolonged cold spell through the early and middle part of December. The sub-zero temperatures coincided with the inevitable reduction in natural pickings, and the result was that the squirrels started to hit my feeding stations very hard.
The tree-wrecking rodents actually hit my feeders much harder than I had expected. One feeding station produced bags of 12 and nine squirrels
