Nice solution. (And I get why that site banned you...)

My mom used similar techniques in her never-ending siege warfare with the squirrels! Usually involving either an (effective) wrist-braced slingshot or a pellet gun. (Both firing much more massive ammo for much more massive animals!)

Yeah, she got her kicks battling nature... (She also told a really great story about beheading chickens as a kid with a .22 - until one jumped at just the wrong moment and was blown to smithereens. Oops! That one's not dinner...)

-jk