Are you mad yet mister!

This squirrel is a "bloody pain!" Its easy for him to get onto this feeder ... he eats a little and then looks up to see if I'm coming to chase him off ... its kind of like he is daring me. If this feeder isn't available he will scale the corner of the house ... about 12 feet, so he can run along the roof and drop down on our window feeder which of course falls to the ground from his weight. There isn't anything in that feeder that he likes but next day he will do the same thing.
Yeah squirrel ... I'm mad

If you follow my footsteps, move to Oz where there are no squirrels, you'll miss the little beggar.

Seriously though- get a designated squirrel feeder- I used to have heaps on them in the US- just little holders that you put a dried corn cob on- the squirrels went nuts for them, until these huge black rats moved in and chased them off.

Ahhhhh....memories of the old country LMAO

I've heard that this setup works quite well as a squirrel deterrent.

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Even if it didn't work, watching and photographing squirrels with slinkies could have real promise.

I work for an electric utility company and squirrels cause a lot of outages by climbing up poles and onto transformers. My company has started stappling a heavy plastic material around the pole and it is so slick that squirrels can't climb it. I don't know where an individual could get something like that but I wonder if a piece of PVC pipe slipped over the post holding the bird feeder wouldn't work just as well. The feeder would have to be tall enough that the squirrel couldn't jump up to it and it would have to be far enough from any tree so that a squirrel couldn't jump across to it. It might work.

I was at a lodge in North Carolina where they had suspended a bird feeder between 2 trees trying to feed the birds and not the squirrels. They had stretched a cable between 2 trees that were 20 to 30 feet apart and in the middle of the cable they had attached another cable and at the bottom of it hung their bird feeder about 10' off the ground. The squirrels would hang upside down on the horizontal cable and shimmy across to the verticle cable and then they would slide down the verticle cable to the feeder. After they had eaten their fill they would just drop the 10' to the ground and be on their way. It is really hard to keep squirrels out of the bird feeders.

A sheet of tin wrapped around a pole of a certain height will keep them away.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. Ref Sparky 98 msg... I have one feeder that is suspended from a treelimb via a 10 foot long plastic covered wire ... One rascal climbs up into the tree and slides down the wire like a fireman on a brass pole ... but head first.

How about some aluminum foil wrapped around the pole, covered with oil! That ought to be worth something.

Squirrel Deterrent

Failed Squirrel deterent

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY

lance v wrote in post #6946381
Failed Squirrel deterent

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY

LMAO! Someone has way too much free time on their hands!

lance v wrote in post #6946381
Failed Squirrel deterent

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY

Atleast he had to work for it!

I'd feed that squirrel too - it sure deserves the food - that's just amazing!