Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
One of the reasons I don't have a bird table is that the food is too easily accessible to rats. Unbelievably 'my' rat stuck its snout through our squirrel-proof nut feeder and was chomping away.

I use sapphire grain rat poison that comes in plastic sachets that are put out unopened. As the rat climbed a tree to get at the nuts, I put the poison on a lower part of the trunk that was inaccessible to hedgehogs. Seems to have worked and I hope it took it back to its family to all have a munch on.
I do find it more than a bit mildly irritating when neighbours put bird seed down without thinking of the consequences for other of their neighbours.