Disgusting footage has emerged of a Chinese diner eating baby mice alive, in what is a delicacy in backstreet restaurants. Let’s look at methods you can use to cut down the probability of mice and rats making your bird feeders their personal kitchen.

How to Keep Rats Away From Bird Feeders 1. I have never had birds eat my strawberries and I have them in hanging pots right by my bird feeders.

If feeders can be relocated at least 30 feet away, mice are much less likely to investigate the buildings as well. You could put chicken wire over the strawberry patch and maybe put some screening material over that to keep the mice out since they would be able to get through the chicken wire. For example, mice have been known to attack and eat chicks of the Tristan albatross, a ground-nesting bird—even though an albatross nestling weighs 300 times more than a mouse.

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How to Keep Rats Away From Bird Feeders 1. One of the most annoying–not to mention yucky–pests that are attracted to bird feeders is rats.

The needs of rats and mice are shelter and food.

Birds can be picky eaters. Gough Island, a British-owned outcrop in the South Atlantic about 2,000 miles off the coast of South America, is one of the most remote places in the world, uninhabited except for the crew of a weather station. Mice and rats most often will be initially attracted to the area by coming across spilt seeds underneath your feeder.

However, squirrels and mice might look cuter but will still create problems for you and your yard.

Mice were accidentally introduced by sailors to the remote island during the 19th century and now survive by eating the eggs and chicks of as many as 19 different species of bird.

Keep the ground clean. By Stuart Winter PUBLISHED: 12:02, Tue, Jul 19, 2016 However, squirrels and mice might look cuter but will still create problems for you and your yard.

“I could be looking at Wisdom next to a bird 40 years younger and not know it was her.” The red auxiliary band helps USFWS easily monitor Wisdom’s comings and goings, which has become especially important in the past few years—ever since the discovery of a gruesome threat straight from an avian nightmare: albatross-eating mice. If you can eliminate sources of these items, you will likely curtail a rodent problem. Mice were caught on video gnawing on and often killing live chicks of all three bird species. One video showed up to 10 mice mauling an albatross chick and eating from three open wounds on its body. Keep the ground clean. If you love bird feeders, then you know one of the tasks of any bird feeder owner is to make sure that pests stay far away from the precious bird food.

Mice were likely introduced to the island on accident by seal hunters some 200 years ago, but Marion Island researchers only started noticing scalped birds around 2009.

Patrick Knox.