If at first you don't succeed.....

This squirrel has been trying for several months to get the bird seed in this bird feeder. As you will notice, the feeder hangs from a metal cane making access to the feeder difficult for non-flying creatures and is outfitted with a "squirrel proof" hood to prevent squirrels from climbing up the pole and onto the feeder. As you can also see, our squirrel kept trying until he indeed did get to the goal. He didn't, however, like his picture being taken and quickly ran away after Steven took this. He hasn't been back so we're not sure whether the seeds just weren't worth the effort or the camera was a greater deterrent than the bird feeder.