Squirrel Baffle

I have three of these and they keep the weather off my feeders, but it's hit or miss with the squirrels. Maybe I just have athletic squirrels, but it does sort of work to keep them out of my tube feeder; 80% of the time they fall off while trying to get a purchase on the feeder. It's actually pretty entertaining.

The media could not be loaded.  This seemed to work well at first (see video) and I thought I had finally licked my squirrel problem. But eventually at least one of them figured it out somehow and was able to bypass the baffler and get to the bird seed. So this may deter some squirrels but not all.

I installed this baffle on top of my cardinal feeder Perky-Pet C00322 Red Cardinal Bird Feeder, and in less than 24 hours a big old squirrel managed to get past it and feast on a pound of sunflower seeds. Ugh. I have the baffle hung about 10 inches above the feeder (connected by a 10" metal S-hook for hanging plants). I thought the more distance between the baffle and the feeder, the harder it would be for the squirrel to maneuver around it, plus the baffle is tippy. But no. My squirrels have magnificent acrobatic skills.Still I give it 4 stars because it is well made, and easy to install. I find even though the hooks are plastic, it is a VERY hard plastic, which looks like it will hold up well and are threaded with metal fittings inside where the two pieces get screwed together.

Nice, but I wish that it was sturdier.

I needed the larger diameter clear baffle for a square hanging tray feeder which was not protected by smaller one from snow accumulation while discouraging squirrels. This is a sturdy unit and should cover my needs, but it has a few design and material drawbacks. Know about these before you decide to buy. First. If you use for pole mount, you have to knock out center plastic to which the hangers would otherwise be mounted. So, once you use for pole feeder baffle, you cannot go back and use for hanging feeder baffle. Second. The hanger hooks are made of Delrin plastic. SQUIRRELS CHEW PLASTIC in frustration to being baffled! So, I do expect that my squirrels will do this and then I will have to buy new hooks in METAL. Third. The plastic hooks have metal threaded insert to mate with plastic threaded end of other. It is easy to crossthread and strip plastic with dis-similar materials like plastic and metal, even it if's Delrin, so that it's useless after three or four tries of screwing together. GET THE FIRST TIME THREADING right the first time. IF it is not easy screwing together and shanks on hooks aligned, you are probably crossthreading and that leaves two or three more tries. Get someone with good eyes and good hands to assemble this if you are using for hanger. I cannot comment on how well this assembles for pole mount because I'm not doing that.

I own FIVE of the Perky Pet Acrylic Bafflers and treat them like glass since acrylic is a little fragile....esp in cold weather! I use them to cover my bird feeders during rainy weather and immediately remove them, wash them and store them until it rains again. I also condition them with mineral oil because they aren't cheap and consider them an investment. BTW: I just purchased an additional three to cover more feeders.RE: Squirrel deterrents -- I wish bird lovers would spend more time researching "squirrel deterrents" because based on my experience; it's best to use a COMBINATION of things. For example; I have a Squirrel feeding station. I placed my bird feeders where Squrrels can't jump onto them (like underneath eaves or even on a tree branch that dips due to heavier critters. My husband made metal cones (bafflers) to place at the CORRECT HEIGHT (we had to make height adustments a few times) on our feeder poles. SOME of our adorable, little stinkers are truly clever and acrobatic so they will make it to a feeder every once in a while but most of them are deterred. I think it depends how hungry they are! Also, Squirrels have no idea I didn't put seed out JUST FOR THEM! Haha!

I bought this baffle in 2016 and in all this time, I never saw a squirrel get to my feeder (they sure tried!). A really big wind storm yesterday caused the feeder to crash to the ground, and I see that the reason is because the hook used for hanging it is plastic and it obviously degraded from the elements and time. Now, it did take four years for the hook to break, but my feeder is rather expensive and really heavy when full. I am now buying a new baffle, but I will only be buying one with a metal hook.

I purchase three of these to stop the squirrels from emptying my bird feeders. It did not stop them, it slowed them down, but they finally figure out how to get past them. 10 feet away and 4 feet above where they can jump from only makes a challenge for the squirrels. Good new is watching the squirrel work past these has been fun to watch. It really slowed them down but only for a little while, and you can tell when it's a new squirrel as they fall down a lot.

Employed over a suspended feeder, it is effective, very effective...including as a means of some protection from the rain.But some find its tipping function leaves it prey to the wind and, so - to those people - it is unsatisfactory.For those people, then, my utterly successful remedy was to reverse the fitting in the dome...turn the whole hooks' apparatus upside down, then to GENTLY insert the wide part into the domes' aperture. This can be safely done, and pushed right home, giving a firm fit. Thus, it no longer tips and the wind is no longer a problem, it helps protect from the rain, and the squirrels are incapable of getting past it, they just slide off it. Those very few that really try, FAIL, for the whole feeder and baffle/ dome sway to one side and the squirrel topples off immediately.That is my remedy for those people who, unlike myself, do not find it satisfactory.Myself, as I stated at the beginning, know it to be very effective indeed in its regular assembly, so definitely recommended.

Absolutely love this ! Using as an umbrella over a hanging feeder, defeats the squirrels, what more could you want ! Have had many feeders ripped to shreds by the squirrels, but this imaginative baffle has solved the problem.Update 17 May 2017. Alas, those pesky squirrels are no longer deterred and happily use it to slide onto the seed feeder. I have even slathered it with Vasolene and it makes no difference, the squirrels in my area seem to be able to dismantle everything and we suspect they have a secret store of screw drivers hidden away somewhere. And all this is such a pity, it is a wonderful idea, but it does not work.

I checked to see if this product could go on a the pole if the bird feeder underneath the feed, it shows in the photo description as such but when it arrived it had a thick hard plastic disc inside the centre with a note to push through! Not being a wimp but there was no way it would push through & no fixings included to then fix it onto the post. I decided to use it instead over the top of a bird feeder & sadly the squirrels are happily eating from the nuts & not baffled at all!

Initially very effective in my battle to keep squirrels off my bird feeder. Unfortunately the little blighters broke it's support after a few days! It was promptly replaced by Amazon and I await Round 2 with the squirrels!

Excellent, at last something to "baffle" (excuse the pun) the squirrels and pigeons who have been decimating my bird feeders. Giveshours of fun watching the squirrels trying to overcome it and falling off!