Originally posted by Rupert They are born with bird feeders "figured out" !
Not all the time.
When I put up our bird feeder in Dec 2014, the squirrel got in right away. I watched how he did it and changed the arrangement; he'd discover his old approach didn't work, then stand there flipping his tail while he surveyed the situation, then disappear for a day or so. We kind of joked that he was working at his white board - then he'd come back with an approach that did work, and we'd begin the process again. I admired his ingenuity, but we
had bought that seed for the birds, so eventually I bought the professionally-constructed squirrel-resistant feeder.
When I put up the old one a few weeks ago "for the squirrels", my wife's question was "why would we do that?"