Gardeners trying to out-think squirrels | Letters

Readers respond to a report that squirrels are stealing millions of pounds of bird seed a yearI hate to pour cold water on Prof Mark Fellowes’ solution to squirrels raiding bird feeders (Nifty raids of grey, 10 May) but after years of being outwitted by these cunning pests, we finally bought a spring-loaded feeder. For a few weeks we had the satisfaction of seeing frustrated squirrels trying to fathom the mechanism and failing. Then one day it vanished. We searched high and low but eventua