Enjoyed that. All but gave up on defeating the squirrels after placing the feeder on a greased plastic pole some 50 feet away from the nearest tree horizontally AND vertically overhead. They still would not be defeated making the leap with a planned trajectory to reach the feeder. Two of them, Hootie and her son Scratchy became multi year dependents and downright pests tapping windows for food and climbing pant legs and such. Fortunately no bites and we did have to enforce limits.
Defeated by the squirrels i turned my attention to the coons that also raided the bird feeder. They not only ate all the seed but destroyed the bird feeder. I broke them from sucking eggs by wrapping both legs of 110 volt ac bare copper wire to a 4” pvc pipe suspended around the bird feeder pole. The results were shocking. The coon raids ended. No coons were killed but I did learn they can actually scream in the night.
air gun....