Squirrels and Birdfeeders

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This article is about squirrels and the (successful or not) thwarting of their accessing a birdfeeder. You may not be interested in this.

Eve M Kahn, Q&A; Squirrels Are Reading This Now. New York Times, Apr 10, 2014
www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/garde ... ading-this-now.html
(an interview with the author of Bill Adler, Jr, Outwitting Squirrels; 101 cunning stratagems to reduce dramatically the egregious misappropriation of seed from your birdfeeder by squirrels. 3rd ed. Chicago Review Press, 2014)

Note:
(a) “Get the blank out of here!”
(i) blank (n): “a dash substituting for an omitted word.”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blank
(ii) In other words, the author used a four-letter word.

(b) “I got this stuff called Nixalite, these spiky spines, scary things”

Nixalite
www.nixalite.com/
(“Nixalite Bird Spikes 'The Original Porcupine Wire'[:] Often imitated, never duplicated”)

is based in East Moline, Illinois.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Moline,_Illinois

(c) “Right now I’m using a generic hardware-store-bought baffle feeder. The dome on top is moderately effective at keeping out squirrels but not entirely effective, so you get to watch them try.”
(i) squirrel baffle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_baffle
(a device designed to deter squirrels, raccoons from accessing birdfeeders)

There is no need to visit this Wiki page, which does not carry an illustration. And There is a reason for that: Go to images.google.com and search with the term and you will find a variety of devices.
(ii) baffle (n; First Known Use 1881): “a device (as a plate, wall, or screen) to deflect, check, or regulate flow or passage (as of a fluid, light, or sound)”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baffle