What do you get when you combine a shepherd’s hook meant for hanging plants with a short length of shiny stovepipe, a one-gallon plastic pot, a small metal hose clamp and a foot-long piece of wire?

Pie tins make great DIY squirrel baffles, and they can be used in different ways. You can attach a pie tin to your bird feeder pole just as you would a store-bought baffle.

Install Squirrel Baffles. One method that keeps squirrels away from fruit trees is a squirrel baffle. These are cone-shaped or cylindrical barriers that go around the trunks of your fruit trees, ...