I will NUT be beaten! Squirrel jumps off house ROOF to land on bird feeder after its attempts to climb the pole fail
- A homeowner’s quarantine bird feeder project was ruined by a cheeky squirrel
- The squirrel found new ways of getting on the feeder in White Plains, New York
- Footage shot on Wednesday shows the squirrel jumping on it from the roof
An ingenious squirrel outsmarted a homeowner by leaping onto a ‘squirrel-proof’ bird feeder from her roof.
Footage shot in White Plains, New York, on Wednesday shows the squirrel planning his jump from multiple angles before successfully landing on the feeder.
The squirrel found a new way of getting onto the feeder after a woman had tried to prevent him from doing so by greasing the pole and moving it to different areas of her front garden.
She had bought the bird feeder as a project during lockdown but the cheeky squirrel kept finding ways to steal the nuts and seeds for himself.
An ingenious squirrel outsmarted a homeowner in White Plains, New York, by leaping onto a bird feeder from her roof after failing to the pole
Before landing the jump, the squirrel tries to climb the pole up to the feeder before sliding back down
In the video, the squirrel attempts to climb the pole a few times before sliding back down.
The squirrel climbs into a nearby bush to see if he can jump onto the feeder from there, before later being spotted on the roof assessing his angles.
Before the squirrel jumps, a woman says ‘there he is, there he is’ and the squirrel leaps but misses the bird feeder.
On his second attempt, the squirrel lands the jump and the video cuts to him scaring away a bird at the feeder by jumping on again, as the woman says: ‘Wait a minute, I don’t know how he got up just now.’
The squirrel asses the jump from an alternative angle before finally making the successful leap onto the feeder
The squirrel lands the jump on his second attempt, reaping the rewards of the bird feeder
The squirrel scares away a bird at the feeder by jumping onto it again from the roof, stealing the seeds and nuts for himself
The video-taker said: ‘During the pandemic, I started a quarantine project, a bird feeder. When the squirrels discovered it, I kept taking new steps to keep them out.
‘First I greased the pole, but they kept trying until the grease wore off. Then I moved it away from the bush and removed the stabilizing cable.
‘One squirrel outsmarted me every time.
‘It would take a few days, you would see him studying the feeder, estimating jumps, climbing into all surrounding bushes to evaluate his prospects.
‘He had many failed attempts from various heights, but he finally did it.’