Persistent Paul Beats Persistent Squirrel

Since moving to Kentucky we have been enjoying the extensive variety of birds that populate our area. We visited Audobon's Owensboro, Kentucky home and enjoyed the birds that were attracted to the bird feeders there so we have experimented with bird feeders here. I made them out of wood and found that the squirrels had no problem getting to them. We don't have anything against squirrels but we are trying to feed and attract birds.

I went to metal poles but the squirrels had no problem climbing them as well. then we heard that squirrels hate cayenne pepper but birds have no problem with it so I scattered pepper around the base of the poles and just to be sure, I greased the poles too. Turns out that both were good ideas. Check out the video. The squirrel is trying to avoid the pepper by leaping over it.