After being given a bird feeder as a gift, I went down a rabbit hole. And it was just the feeder, btw. So nothing else. Well, with a feeder you need to put it

After being given a bird feeder as a gift, I went down a rabbit hole. And it was just the feeder, btw. So nothing else. Well, with a feeder you need to put it somewhere. Tried trees. It was a squirrel feeder. Then I got a pole for the middle of my yard, away from all high objects a squirrel could jump from. Quickly became a squirrel feeder, as they can climb the pole. Looked at greasing the pole, laying out with a BB gun, and other options, but settled on a metal cone below the feeder. The squirrels in my neighborhood have bad short term memory, so they will see the feeder, make the association with food, start to climb the pole, get under the cone, and then sit there for a couple of seconds before forgetting their mission. I’ve had squirrels try to reach to the exterior of the cone, but it’s not stable, so as soon as they put weight on it they fall. I’ve heard squirrels elsewhere are smarter than this system (not sure how - team work?) but here they can’t figure it out. All that said, the “gift” of the bird feeder lead to $100 in purchases, regular seed refills, and hours of research. But I ended up with birds near my office window, so that’s nice.* 6/10 would receive again. Feeder pole: Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Vigoro-84-in-Black-Steel-Traditional-Single-Shepherd-Hook-844635VG/302643466 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Vigoro-84-in-Black-Steel-Traditi... Feeder: Audubon NAGOGREEN1 Going Green Ranch Style Bird Feeder Cone: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0010QD5QO?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0010QD5QO?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_... * in searching my Amazon order history to find the products I got, I realized we also had a ton of bird strikes into our windows, to the point that I had to get clings to go on the windows. These have been mostly effective in stopping birds from hitting the house.