As you're prepping the seeds for your feeder, go to your spice rack and grab your chili powder or cayenne pepper. Sprinkle this liberally onto the bird food, stir to coat the food, and place it into the feeder. That's all you need to do. Then, every time you change the seeds in your bird feeder, repeat this simple process. What gives chili powder and other spicy ingredients their heat is an ingredient called capsaicin. For humans, it's quite effective as part of an anti-inflammatory diet, and most of us seem to tolerate it pretty well. However, other mammals including squirrels dislike it and will refuse any food source that includes it.
Incredibly, birds are not put off by chili powder. In fact, some species actually like it — and yes, they can taste it. Capsaicin triggers a burning feeling that can be painful in mammals, not just in the mouth but also whenever touched, but that's not the case for birds. It is a tidy solution to reduce the number of squirrels that try to overrun your feeder.
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