[juvenal]

I made the error on this forum of bad-mouthing a squirrel that frequents my plot...

Clearly seeing this as 'disrespecting'  him, he returned and utterly trashed my birdfeeder...

It wouldn't surprise me to meet him looking for me with a tiny twelve-bore...

I'll keep my remarks to myself in future

[Aunt Sally]

He’s done a really good job on the bird feeder   

[Yorkie]

They've clearly learnt some tricks from their Yorkshire cousins 

I had a plastic tube bird feeder which has the two holes near the bottom with plastic dowels for birds to perch on. The squirrels left it alone for ages, then worked out how to nibble the surrounds of the holes so that they fell out, letting the seed out too. 

I replaced it - they'd done the same within about 48 hours 

I re-replaced it, but this time with a far more expensive metal one with the RSPB label on it and a surrounding wire cage that the birds can get through. They have tried to work out how to get in (as have the pigeons  ) but to no avail yet 

[Goosegirl]

Flippin' heck! That's some savvy squirrel!! Just hope you have a firearms licence and another one for whatever you're going to load it with. May I suggest either a punt gun or, even better, a Martini Henry as used by the British in the Zulu war of Rorke's Drift. Can't just remember the exact model but it was mentioned in the film which is one of my favourites. Maybe it was a .455???