After many years of playing cat and mouse games with the squirrels I've finally found a way to defeat them thanks to a friends suggestion. I wrapped my feeder pole with 5" stove pipe. The pipe needs to be at least 4-5 feet tall as squirrels can jump pretty high. When I first added the stove pipe the squirrels were trying to jump up, but would just slide down the pipe. Now they just hang out under the feeders looking for dropped seed.
I don't seem to have a problem with bears but my friend has a solution for that too, he uses a thick pipe and somehow electrifies it with an electric fence.
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