The squirrels discovered the bird feeder this winter, and once they did, they have been getting most of the food we put out.
As I mentioned back in February, greasing the pipe the feeder hangs on did little or nothing to deter the little rodents, but last week, I came up with something that seems to be working so far.
I took the aluminum reflector from an old clip-on style shop lamp and mounted it on the pole just above the point where the squirrels jump to start their climb. The hole in the lampshade is slightly larger than the pipe and it is not permanently affixed to the pole. It is just sitting atop a hose clamp that is a little bit bigger than the hole.
It looks kind of trashy – definitely an example of Redneck engineering – but so far it’s working. We haven’t had a squirrel in the feeder in over a week!
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