Hello!

I recently [about 6months ago] started taking care of the grey squirrels who visit my backyard daily. There are eight of them, all of them will take food from my hand. I am careful to not make them dependent on me by overfeeding. I feed them once in the morning at the same time. They will not run up to me if I am outside, I just stick my hand out from my backdoor. I don't want them getting habituated and running up to any strangers for food which could possibly endanger them. I want to make sure I am not overfeeding, or feeding anything inappropriate for them. Currently I order bulk nuts from anuts.com that consist of walnuts, almonds, pecans and hazelnuts in the shell- they mainly get this daily. They also get some black oil sunflower seeds and peanuts in the shell [sparingly]. Occasionally I give them cherries, apples or avocado as a treat [very little avocado]. I tried several other things that they did not like and will not eat: Kaytee backyard wildlife food blend for wild squirrels, exotic nutrition squirrel complete diet, Herron outdoors wildlife feed for squirrels, and kaytee fort diet pro health.

Is there any other squirrel diet I can buy that they will like? I am spending a fortune on nuts every month. I want to confirm I am not feeding anything wrong, or overfeeding them as I know overfeeding certain foods can be really bad for them as well. Thank you in advance!!!