A helpful reader sent along some tips on preventing birds from eating my snail bait:
“To protect the birds & other animals from the bait, try the meal instead of the pellets. Dampen it a bit–damp not wet. (It will attract more
snails & less mammals.) Then stick it under bits of crockery or under an aluminum pie plate, an old ashtray, some wood…just prop the cover-up enough so the snails & slugs can slither under but the birds can’t get to it easily.”