Bonide Repels All 3 lbs Animal Repellent Ready-to-Use Granules for Outdoor Use

I was faced with a dilemma recently. I was going away on vacation for a few weeks in the fall. I have been feeding birds from my deck for months and knew the birds have come to rely on the seed to bulk up for the winter. However, I live in a rural area where you can't leave birdfeeders out during the night, unless you don't mind bears and raccoons playing havoc with the feeders. During my absence, I wasn't sure if I should just take the feeders down or take a chance that the nocturnal wildlife will destroy them while I was gone. Up to that point I did have raccoons visit most nights to see if there was anything worth their while - even though the feeders were taken down. I looked into this product and decided to leave the feeders up and sprinkle this generously all over the deck before I left. I have cameras to watch the deck from my phone, so I was able to check to see if there was any activity. There was none - for almost 2 weeks! I did have one raccoon come by a few days before I got home because we had rain for several days, so the product must have washed away. But I was absolutely amazed. Now that I am home and the feeders are taken it every night, I don't mind if they stop by at night - and that they do, almost every night. A squirrel has found a way to get to one of my feeders recently - so I just sprinkled a lot of this on the railing near the feeder. So far, they get close to it and change their mind.