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How can you prevent birds and squirrels from eating your sunflowers?
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∙ 9y ago
You plant enough of them that the birds can have their fill and you can still harvest some. You can place fine mesh netting around the ripening flower heads to prevent the birds from eating them all.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 8y agoIt is just like birds eating the cherries off trees and the deer eating our vegetable gardens, it is their natural food, so they will eat it. If you want to stop them from eating them, then the best option is to build a net over the flowers. The netting is cheap enough and a few long sticks and some string is all you need. However, you didn't say what kind of cockatoos you are suffering from, the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo is an extremely destructive bird, so you should buy some strong material for those type of birds if you have that, other than that it should be fine.
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∙ 14y agothere really is no way to do that unless you cover the sunflowers or cover the seeds
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∙ 14y agoPut up a scarecrow... or a statue of an owl.
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∙ 8y agoSeveral varieties of birds love sunflower seeds. Bluejays, cardinals, sparrows and finches love sunflower seeds.
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