Black Baffler

New squirrels in the neighborhood, and they were hanging from the suet cage and making short work of the cakes. We had a two-piece plastic version in the past, but it would come apart and eventually blew away in a windstorm. This is great, since you can use it on the shepherd's hooks that are double pronged at the bottom and double hooked at the top (the one-piece baffles that don't "split open" would not be able to be used since you can't thread them onto the top or bottom of the hooks). Now, the squirrels are relegated to the ground to salvage whatever seed falls there.

I had a ton of these damn squirrels eating all my bird food. I installed this cone on two of my feeders and now the squirrels are looking allot skinnier.

I couldn't figure out why my bird feeder was going empty after 5 hours or so. The squirrels were unable to get to the sunflower seeds because of the spring loaded sleeve on the feeder. So after watching for 15 minutes I saw the culprits - a couple of wily chipmunks climbing up the shepherds pole and whose weight didn't close the feeding ports as they quickly stuffed their mouths with heaps of expensive sunflower seeds. Well the baffle has put an end to their sunflower holiday. They didn't give up easy , but after a day of frustration I am happy to report they have moved on to easier pickings and I am saving a ton of dough on sunflower seeds. The baffle was easy to install and it is a nice grade of steel with a nice finish. Bye bye chipmunks .