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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year. As my subject line indicates, I have been at war with the squirrels who love eating my expensive offerings out of my feeder. This isn’t just an ordinary feeder. It has a microphone inside and a transmitter that I have in my house that transmits all the sound on and around the feeder. This enables me to hear and identify the birds by sound since I am sightless. So far we have live-trapped and relocated twelve or thirteen squirrels to the other side of the river but there always seems to be more. My feeder is a hopper-style feeder with perches all around it. The lowest part of the feeder is about four feet off the ground and I have a baffle underneath. However, they are able to get up there anyway. I’m sure many of you have had battles with our acrobatic, agile bird competitors. I would be interested to know how you have dealt with them. I will say, my step count has increased a lot from chasing them. Lol. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cherise Neustrom, Clearwater, MN<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>