In a previous life I must have sold several dozen different types of bird feeders. Like the cobblers children, I did not use any of them, preferring to make a squirrel proof feeder of my own invention. A long metal bar, bashed into the lawn. At waist height a 24" diameter piece of light metal, flying saucer shaped, held in place by a clip underneath it, then bird feeders fixed onto metal bars soldered on at 90 degrees to the upright. The squirrels could not get around the very slippery 'flying saucer' as they had no purchase with their claws. How we laughed. Hours of fun watching them try.
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