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Here is an idea for a squirrel-proof feeder that has worked for me for 8 years now. My DH made it from scraps. It's just a metal pole, plywood and a piece of aluminum tacked to the bottom platform. What I have added since this picture is a thick piece of rope tacked around the edges so the seed doesn't spill off as easily.
The birds love it being double-decker and so open. I've already seen it wing-to-wing birds on both levels.
There is one little problem with it though. Occasionally a deer will try to stand to get seed off of it and sometimes the aluminum gets dented in on one side. When this happens the squirrels can reach up around the dent and pull themselves up. But I just bang out the dent and then they can't reach up.
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