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All Topics. Close Close. After 11 years of rooting rodents out of my attic and keeping them out, they’re back. The severe cold has made some sharp-toothed animal persistent, and it and its extended family eventually broke into the attic again.
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I hear a lot of chewing behind the bedroom walls at night (during daylight hours, too) followed by sounds of gamboling from one end of the attic to the other while I lie sleepless in my bed, fuming. My husband rat-proofed the current chicken run by using hardware cloth for walls instead of chicken wire, whose mesh is big enough to admit rats, never mind tiny mice.
When a rat tunneled under the buried wire like a WWII American prisoner of war and chewed a hole through the 30-gallon garbage container where the hens’ seeds and grains are stored, my garden helper dug a deeper trench and emptied a bag of Sakcrete into it. That stopped them, for now. My house, however, is not so fortified against those sharp and persistent teeth. Yet I cannot imagine not feeding the birds, especially during severe cold spells.
Feeding them or not feeding them may mean their survival. Although pest-control experts say rats can get through a hole the size of a quarter, the rats I have seen have sleek fur and fat bellies. They eat leftover quality nut meats every night. And there’s the problem, says John Schaust, chief naturalist for Wild Birds Unlimited.
Rats eat bird seed on the ground under feeders, or, in my case a generous tray feeder. “The bird seed is not what is drawing them in in the first place,” Schaust said by telephone from Indiana. “It’s pet droppings, fruit trees, compost piles. “But, yes, we can keep the rats off the feeders and the food off the ground.” Schaust ticked off instructions: Provide only one type of seed. Sunflower chips are an almost universal choice. If you have a feeder on a pole, add a baffle to the pole. “Rats are not huge jumpers like squirrels,” he says.
“They’re not gonna climb that pole beyond that baffle.” If you use a feeder hanging from a tree limb or some other support that cannot be fitted with a baffle, add a tray to the feeder to catch seeds birds otherwise sweep to the ground. (Supplying only sunflower chips also eliminates wasted seed.). Cut back on food. “I know it’s a pain to go out every day” to replenish the feeder, he says. If you supply a limited amount daily at about the same hour, the birds will learn your habit and be waiting for your appearance. WBU’s Eliminator feeder, Schaust says, was designed to keep squirrels out, the nuisance animal customers rant most about. But it works for rats and even starlings, he says.
“Squirrels and rodents are amazingly adaptive, but it’s as close to being squirrel-proof as anything out there,” he says. The seed ports close when an animal that weighs more than a bird touches the perch ring. You can adjust the sensitivity level to deter rats and even larger birds such as pigeons and doves. If you also want to provide for woodland birds such as American goldfinches, house finches and pine siskins, hang a niger thistle feeder with a tray to catch spilled seeds.
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“If you love your woodpeckers,” Schaust says, provide a suet feeder. He says suet doughs have a tendency to crumble and fall to the ground, so gummy, messy suet cakes are preferred. “But you need that baffle” to thwart the rats. Where to buy Wild Birds Unlimited 6333 E. Mockingbird Lane at Abrams, Dallas 4719 W. Lovers Lane at Linwood, Dallas 1660 W.
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