SQUIRRELS VS HOT PEPPER BIRD SEED! Does this spicy food actually work against squirrels?

Hello, my name is Scott and today we are going to see if using chili

pepper

bird

seed

will really

work

to prevent

squirrels

at

bird

feeders. Alright, chili

pepper

bird

seed

, in case you haven't heard of it, what it is, it's bird seed. that has been coated or infused or has some type of hot spice inside, for example the one I'm going to use today has liquid chili peppers in real

food

, but I've also seen red pepper flakes that use cayenne pepper and use anything that might make our mouths burn a little, so

this

is the amazing thing about chili pepper bird seeds.

Birds don't have much of a sense of smell or taste, so they can eat chili pepper bird seeds all day long and have no problem with the spiciness. it only affects mammals like people but most importantly like

squirrels

one smell or maybe a small bite of

this

stuff and the squirrels will look for

food

elsewhere so today what I want to do was test to see if This chili pepper bird seed really

work

s. I'm going to put it in my feeders. I have cameras on my feeders. Let's see what happens when the squirrels come and find the seed.

But before we start I just want to give you a quick warning about the hot pepper. When handling birdseed you should make sure to wear gloves. I've made the mistake exactly once of touching the material with my fingers and then accidentally touching my eyes and nose and it's not fun, so be very careful. I always have a separate bucket, I take out the hot pepper seeds and pour them into the bucket with my gloves on and you can even smell it coming out a little bit, you have to be careful or because it's getting up your nose, so from here I just use a spoon so, next I'm going to take this bucket, fill it with chili pepper bird seed and then I'm going to turn this off and see what the squirrels think before I see if the chili pepper bird seed works first. to show you what my bird feeders normally look like when I just use regular sunflower seeds that don't have any spice or chili pepper added to them, as you can see the squirrels come to my feeders and sit there and eat and eat and eat and they continue eating and do not let any birds come near them while they eat.

Now let's add the

spicy

birdseed and see what happens, so here's the first squirrel that jumps from that tree in the back to the bird feeders. and goes to the middle tray which is now filled with the hot pepper bird seed and you can tell it is a more reddish color than the normal sunflower seed and in this case it smells a little and

actually

does

n't even you try to eat it, you just smell it and you go to that tube that's full of peanuts and those peanuts that you're trying to chew don't have any hot pepper or anything

spicy

in them, so this first grill no. not even a bite, one smell is all he needs and he goes for another meal, finally this girl gives up on the peanuts in that cage, two feeders and he goes one more lap around the feeder and again no take a single bite. from the jump on mercy and finally the squirrel gives up and jumps to the ground to look for food elsewhere.

Now look at this. The interesting thing is that as soon as the squirrel leaves, you can see the birds come back and have no problem eating. hot pepper bird seed, so this first test was a success, the squirrel didn't even take a bite and was gone pretty quickly and the birds again had no problem eating the seed, well let's take a look at our next squirrel, So what's so interesting about it? He jumps up and instead of just sniffing it and leaving it alone, this girl

actually

takes a few bites of the chili pepper seed, but as you can see, it only takes a few bites for this squirrel to realize that this is not food. for him and immediately starts searching the rest of the feeders for something better to eat that isn't so hot and spicy.

In fact, this girl hated the taste of spicy bird seeds so much that she is desperately trying to get into the caged bird. feeder as you can see here, as you can see, there's no possible way for them to get in there, but you sure don't stop trying, that was pretty conclusive, the chili pepper bird seed worked really well, so I've always had that. Good experience with chili pepper bird seeds. I was not surprised by these results. Now, the biggest negative of chili pepper bird seed is the cost. It will cost you two, three, four times more than regular food that

does

n't have hot pepper in it. or something spicier was added, but on the other hand you're not going to feed the squirrels anymore, so there's probably a balance point somewhere, I don't know what that is, that's a question for another day, but in case You're wondering that the brand of food I used in the video was called Whole Kohl's Cole C-o-l-e-s Hot Meats Hot Pepper Bird Seeds.

I'll put a link in the description below, so if you want to check the cost, you can do that too. Other than that, once again, my name is Scott with the birding headquarters. Be sure to check out the live cam feed from my channel showing bird feeders in my backyard and some from around the world. Alright, thanks again for watching today and good luck. against your battle against the squirrels you