Anyone ever found a way to keep those little devils away from the bird feeder ? One of our little gray friends chewed through our screen on the screened in porch because he must have smelled the bird seed in the container. I used to sit on the ground with my hands outstretched with a peanut in my hand and they would actually come over very cautiously and take the peanut. One day he must have mistaken the end of one of my fingers for a peanut , boy "o" boy did we both jump!