It seems that most people that feed birds fuss about how much food gray squirrels eat at their feeders. However, few of us have any idea how much food a squirrel actually consumes. Some will say anything a squirrel can gobble up is too much. Others say they do not mind it if squirrels eat some food, however, they are of the opinion bushytails eat too much.
How much is too much? I will let you decide for yourself. Studies have shown that a gray squirrel will eat approximately 1.5 pounds of seeds and nuts per week.
When a squirrel sits on one side of a feeder and pours/shovels seed out on the ground for its friends and family while wasting 5 lbs of seed I paid for it’s too much. Especially in my nut-tree covered yard!
And I have at least 30!
Linda,
Wow! I have never heard of anyone feeding so many squirrels. Are you trying to reduce their numbers?
Wow! 30 squirrels — that is a lot. I don’t know how birds can find any food left by a herd of squirrels.