I think the point here is not the genius of the squirrel but its determination in succeeding. An admirable trait that we might emulate ourselves when it comes to achieving our goals in life. As an aside, move that flower pot and you will have succeeded as well. :)

I’m not sure who I’m more impressed with, the patience of the squirrel, or the patience of the person who literally held that camera for 8 1/2 minutes in the off chance that squirrel would defeat the new barrier.

I love how he sits up there and thinks it thru lol

He was just sizing up and calculating the distance of everything from the feeder in his little head. Very impressive!

One by one, every squirrel in the woods had to come by and try out our hot wired varmint deterring bird feeder. One by one, they learned what 10,000 volts feels like, and never returned.

He was definitely doing some calculations! Totally earned that snack! It's great to that Mother Nature provides us with the best entertainment! I could hear the mission impossible music all the way through that!

What a stinker! You could see the wheels turning as it went to each spot. You have a beautiful yard. Love all those pots.

My granny use to say " The road of life is paved with squirrels who couldn't make a decision"

Shows how smart they are in figuring things out.

Nicely executed... Should get his own feeder for that... Lol... 😂

I bought a small electric fence unit made to keep rabbits out of a garden and connected one wire to the poll and one to the bird feeder. No danger to the birds as they cannot touch both at the same time. When the squirrel goes up the poll and reaches for the bird feeder he gets a little jolt and jumps down. Haven't seen him back.

When there is a will, there is a way !!! Love you squirrel.

The most effective way to to dispose of grey squirrels IN MY YARD is the Havahart model # 1083 EZ-set, 1 door trap. I don't have the time or energy to be making home made traps by hand. I have used the Havahart EZ-set # 1083 to dispose of 360 grey squirrels since June 2014. The 1-door EZ-set traps save me time in 3 different ways: 1) They are much easier and faster to set than 2 door traps. 2) they are also much easier to bait because you just put the bait behind the trigger plate, instead of trying to balance the bait on top of the trigger plate. I have had the 1030 go off in my hand from the motion while walking with it. Very annoying. 3) I don't have any false alarms any more because the 1083 is NEVER set off by small birds. It takes a 1 pound animal to set off the 1083 and almost all grey squirrels weigh at least 1 pound. That is important if you are not home to keep checking your traps. You will never catch a squirrel, if the trap is closed for hours with a small bird inside. I used to use a 1030 for grey squirrels but since I bought 2 of the EZ set traps I stopped using the older model trap. Every squirrel that I dispose of is 1 less squirrel that will ravage my garden of tomatoes and my bird feeders. I take them all to the exact same spot in the nearby woods and allow scavengers like possums to have the carcass. Win-Win Possums are unfairly maligned by many people simply because of the way they look Home Depot and Lowes do not stock the 1083 but I was able to get them online for about $35 via Amazon WRZ 2020-08-14 Chester County, PA

twitching tail... calculates distance to jump... front paws in pensive pose... mind calculating risks... gathering chi... wishing he were a flying squirrel... 😉 Found the right launching spot!

It was actually a gift for my Mother in her Garden, so I don't see it everyday. The Baffle does stop them, but squirrels are crafty little things and some are brave enough to try leaping from a distance at it. So you just need to make sure there is nothing nearby that they could use to jump at it. She also now has a small squirrel nut feeder which is near the ground and tends to keep them busy so they don't bother the birds.

Cooking oil on the plastic semi-ball,and on the pole would teach those pesky squirrels! Luv your backyard!

lol 😂. 0:08 He jumped up all confident like, ‘ I got this!’ Lol 😆.

I have a pole feeder too,but it is away from anything they can jump from,and has a stovepipe type baffle,which has never been defeated.

It certainly would have been something if the squirrel pushed a chair.

Prevention... Take some chalk & draw the outline of 3 or 4 dead squirrels. Perhaps that will give them something else to calculate; hehehe!

Well,that anti-squirrel baffle almost worked,till it figured out to defeat it by jumping past it! LOL! Love it,great entertainment too!

It isn't determination that got the squirrel over the hemisphere. It was careful calculating. He figured out that the only path past the baffle would be through the air.

I was waiting for it to push the chair over to the pole.........lol

They're a lot smarter than we think they are and then you add determination and persistence in and they almost always win ... however I am having a lot of success with the Rollerfeeder ...

1:13 "and we see the squirrel plotting. The adorable little fluffy twerp"

We have determined squirrels like this. We had to raise the height of our bird feeder, make sure it was in the centre of the lawn so they had nothing to climb and get the baffle at just the right position. Takes some tweaking but you can beat them.

I tell you these squirrels are amazing that and they never quit and they're soooo very smart. 🤣🤣

Never give up! I seen this one plus two or three more like it! There should be 200 or 300 of these!!

That is brilliant....just when we thought that we had out witted the squirrel he showed that, with perserverance, he could out baffle the baffel. Will now have to move that ornamental pot that he launched himslef off.

Amazing how he tried out different heights to see how effective each would be. You could see him looking upward and even going on each one to assess if it would work. Then when he found one that would do the trick, he took no time in making the jump. He thought about the problem and came up with a solution.

I'm mesmerized by the beauty of the neighborhood Wow, what a wonderful place to live

They're not just good climbers, they're great leapers. Imagine a sphere seven feet around the feeders and make sure nothing but the pole is in that sphere, including the ground and the baffle itself.

Watch that tail! He is thinking!

I first installed one of Wildbird's bell baffles (it came with the complete set up). Eventually, the squirrels raced up the pole, reached out, tipped the baffle and gained enough traction through momentum to catapult over the baffle to the feeders. I'd even greased the pole with silicon grease and it didn't stop them. The grease eventually gets tacky and they weren't sliding down. Then I purchased a 24" wide steel baffle. Hah! Didn't work either (well, so far... I'm going to move it down incrementally to see if that does the trick). In the meantime, my squirrels easily jump from the pole under the baffle to the feeders. IMO, Wildbird's feeder hooks are too low so their feeders hang down too far. A 6" pole extension might do the trick.

Bet you weren't counting on Super Squirrel showing up. What a magnificent jump!

I fought them, trapped, and carried them off to the woods at the river. If you think you are going to win, you are fighting a losing battle. Finally, one day i was at Tractor Supply and found squirrel proof feeders. They can get up to them , but can't get food out of them. When they get on them to feed the feeder goes down and the hole is not available. They now feed on the ground. I just put some sunflower seeds on the ground for them and the doves. The feeder cost $20.

what a lovely garden!

The power company up here where I live Pacific Gass & Electric has a constant problem with squirrels getting into the high voltage equipment, and getting fried, and causing a blackout. Where I worked one day I heard very loud explosion outside, and all the lights went out. We called and reported the problem, and went out to investigate. We found a small smoldering squirrel laying at the base of the power pole. In honer of the small rodent, who gave his life in the exploration of electrical equipment we named our company's softball team the flaming squirrels

Squirrels are very smart and very clever. This was something that seemed to be impossible but he studied and figured out a way. I feed squirrels and know what they are able to do and they constantly surprise me.

OMG. It's like you could see him doing the math when he was sitting on the beam, and the "candlestick-like" decoration below. Wow. I have a squirrel that swings from my birdfeeder, causes it to swing like mad and dump all the seeds out, then he drops down and collects his bounty. I don't want to hurt squirrels...but these things are really getting on my nerves (and my expense list!) =M=

well that animal certainly had the patience to work that out ok - took a bit of time but it got there & certainly deserved that feed.

Lol 😂. 0:52 🐿 ‘ let’s seee heeerree!! How am I to get over thereeee?! ‘

Incredible creatures-nothing but respect.

NEVER bet against the squirrel!

We have a metal baffle on a "squirrel proof" feeder....darn thing got past the baffle and chewed a hole through the front of the feeder which is plastic. Hubby used some stainless steel wired mesh across the front but the rodent is still trying to get seed!

They are smart little creatures that's for sure. Lol.....but the baffle does work!

Gotta give him credit. I had a chipmunk monk on my feeder this morning. I had no idea they could climb a pole.

Squirrels are protected in Canada and people love watching them play. It's hard to conceive people harming them.

I have to say I'm impressed by that squirrel.

personally i think if squirrels figure out ways around such things, they deserve all the food they can eat lol.

Thank you master squirrel! I'll get up and try again myself!

Squirrels love peanuts and peanut butter. I began trapping squirrels at the base of my feeders 4 years ago thinking that if I disposed of a handful they would all be gone. 260 squirrels later they continue to come! I think one of my neighbors is busing them in from somewhere else but I can't prove it.

Got to leave at least 10' clearance all around and the squirrel may NOT succeed:) Love, that squirrel and THANK YOU for the entertainment!!!.

Whew... for a minute I was worried he wouldn't make it. I made my lil squirrel buddies picnic tables to feed at. Mini picnic tables.

Wow, that is some crafty squirrel work! I have a few that are going after my birdfeeder too. I think they outsmart me most of the time.

I swore he yelled out " screw you" when he was flying from the flowerpot.

For years, I noticed that squirrels use rapid fire tail movements to increase the length of a jump. My video is called Squirrel Tail Propulsion and was filmed in slow motion .

It took a while but persistence pays

A little oil on the top side of the baffle would have had amusing consequences

Now you know how he got past it... move the feeder or the pot he used to get a boost and make it too far to jump. Add a high voltage fence shocker to the pole so when he tries to climb he gets zapped

At the end, the squirrel even didn't eat much seeds. It was more like "Just to ensure myself that I can do it. Food is not the goal". Beautiful creatures. Way more interresting and cute than cats.

Man I love me some squirrel and dumplings!!!

LOL... Determination can defeat the best of well-prepared precautions. Funny to watch, thanks.

The baffle works better if it is allowed to flop loose rather than being rigid. When they land on it it just tips dropping them to the ground.

Thanks foe the video. Now I know more about where to locate my feeder.

Thank you for not setting this to music

That jump was absolutely impressive talk about athleticism. WOW😮

And that’s why you put oil on top of the dome

Simple. Go buy 4” wood stove smoke pipe stainless steel. Never rust and to slippery for him to climb. It is just the right height to cover 95%of pole feeder .

LOL!!!! Squirrels can leap and jump farther than you think and are very smart in figuring out how to get to food. And they dont give up, very persistent. I thought at first the Squirrel was going to try and leap from the tall Red post to the feeders at the beginning of the video. Hard sometimes making a bird feeders full proof from Squirrels. Thanks for the video

3:22 "Ok, so the square root of the hypotenuse * 23(x-5+44)/F=M cubed E=MC2."

out smarted by a squirrel, DAMN IT..

An excellent squirrel feeder design! (Squirrels are one of the most intelligent rodents, and a good squirrel feeder should be designed to exercise that intelligence.)

Put that thing in the middle of the yard with nothing close to it for the squirrel to jump from....

Hanging bird feeders from trees is convenient but squirrels make this impractical. Bird Feeders need to be placed far enough away from homes and trees that squirrels can not jump onto them. Then drive a short section of thin, straight, pipe into the ground, long enough that it will reliably support a wider pole around it. Then get a 2" diameter section of PVC pipe approx 4 -5 ' long from Home Depot and place it over/around the thin diameter wrought iron post you are currently using. Squirrels can not climb wide diameter poles. I also have a baffle that sits atop the 2" diameter length and another narrower diameter section above the baffle and supported by it. I have multiple feeders supported by each pole. This also makes it easy to take down your feeders if you ever need to.

Ha. 😁 4:41 the birds 🐦 are teasing 😈 the squirrel 🐿!

I call them "Tree Rats" 😹😹😹😹😹

This is why I don't waste my money on squirrel deterrents such as baffles, spicy bird food etc. I just set up a small cage trap with peanuts and corn in a bowl.

Gophers are even more clever, there's hope for life on earth after humans are gone.

Remind me of a Pixar short.

He's a determined little rodent, huh!?! 😂😂😂 Glad I watched this since I'm hanging bird feeders next week. 😀

Been attempting to thwart these tree rats for decades and about the only thing that's 90% effective is one of these domes (or tin hats) and some distance. They can jump a good 10 feet on the horizontal and easily 4 ft vertical. Add 2 ft of snow and all bets are off because they have a higher launch pad. Greasing the pole doesn't do squat because it eventually attracts dirt, which aids in traction. What does seem to help against pole climbing is 6 inch chimney pipe around the post. No place to dig in the claws and it's too broad for them to hug. (all joints facing down) Use 2 or 3 lengths (24 inch each) and add a dome, then you are set to watch them scratch their little heads!

Amazes me people put out bird feeders to Feed feral birds starlings & sparrows etc Mr Squirrel Oh another theme park ride & free food Humans like us 🐿 If we had squirrels in OZ it'll be squirrel feeders there cute - until they get in the roof ceiling 😼 why you own a cat and shove in roof ceiling every 1-3 months to check for Squatters 😸👍🤣 cheers Oz Straya 🦘🐨🎏✌

Wow, that was a nice jump!

Since squirrels only eat nuts and seeds, it's time for recipes of Squirrel STEW...I'm sure t'would be delicious...

I was disappointed that it got to feast on the bird food.

Great patience recording this lil fellah. After such persistance , I would have allowed it to get his belly full as well! I'll find them in my platform feeders from time to time: If they "make it" to it they win the prize.

a slow motion jump with six million dollar man sound effects would be hilarious ..

Grease poles with Crisco and hang feeders from strong thin wire, NOT rope of any kind.

Executive summary: Squirrel pulls a Michael Jordan at 5:50 and beats the baffle.

Man vs. squirrel, who knew!

The squirrel baffle is positioned way to low. Secondly with all the pots laying around the bird stand.. you pretty much provided a stepladder for the squirrel to just jump up. Baffles should be positioned at least 4 1/2 ft off the ground with nothing laying near it that can provid the squirrel a boost. Most squirrels can jump vertically up to 4ft so anything lower is basically just a stand for the squirrel to jump on to. Another tip is to buy bird seed that’s been sprayed with or made with hot peppers as most animals do not like the heat but this has no effect on birds.

Ha I love when he tries to go up the pole but gets stopped by the dome.

Hard work for a squirrel.

Squirrels are amazing!!!

YOU CAN SEE THE INTELLIGENCE GOING ON IN THAT BRAIN,,,,,,,,,,,PROBABLY A LOT MORE THAN IN SOME PEOPLE I KNOW.............WE COULD TAKE A LESSON FROM THESE GUYS IN DETERMINATION AND NOT GIVING UP..........THERE'S ALWAYS A SOLUTION...............

Would if the baffle was greased and was made of a collapsable, flexible plastic? Then the squirrel couldn't jump on top.

4:45 squirrel comes to the stark realization that life is fundamentally unfair.

i can see and feel his frustration as he tries to stratadise how to pull this off this reminds me of a cartoon i used to watch called screwy squirrel it had all mischief and sneaky tactics seen hear and more

Why do you have all of those items around that they can use as Launch Pads ?