Awesome Squirrels

A while back, engineer Mark Rober built an obstacle course to try and keep squirrels from getting to his birdseed. Ultimately, the smart squirrels figured it out, so he decided to up his game with a far more complicated maze that’s even trickier to navigate. Will the squirrels get their claws on Mark’s nuts again?

Like many of us, engineer Mark Rober has a backyard bird feeder. He also faces the common problem of squirrels pilfering bird seed. So what did he do? He and his buddy created an overly-complicated solution to the problem, frustrating fluffy-tailed rodents with an American Squirrel Warrior obstacle course.

Rather than doing battle with the squirrels in his backyard, builder Michael Dutko of Duke Harmon Woodworking built himself the fanciest squirrel feeder we’ve ever seen. The Nutty Bar serves seven different artisanal nut and seed varieties on tap for his furry rodent friends.

Eleanor Sizemore was minding her own business when she came across this plump and fluffy squirrel in a tree, and he was seriously going to town on a glazed donut. We like to think of this short video clip as the companion piece to Pizza Rat.

We think of New York City as being crowded with humans, but the city is teeming with critters too, and they’ve gotta eat. We’ve already seen a rat trying to take home a slice of pizza, and now we’ve got a squirrel who has a thing for Shake Shack.

Don’t feel bad for benefiting slightly from your altruism towards the bushy-tailed varmints who call your yard home with the laughing fits that this horse head shaped feeder from Archie McPhee is sure to inspire. Images by Jim Zielinski.

A demonstration of a simple radio-controlled airplane is interrupted by the appearance of an unwanted pilot. Clearly, it’s all kinds of fakery, but it’s still amusing. Maybe he was just trying to find his way to Bullwinkle.