New Bird Feeder

I just got this new bird feeder at Walmart and it seems to be working out very well. I do my best to keep the squirrels off of it by using a round, metal, flat lid-like piece above it. The feeder is hanging on a bungee cord and without the flat metal piece above the feeder, the squirrels would be able to slide down the bungee cord and eat the seeds out of the bird feeder

The photograph, at left, shows a green bird feeder hooked onto the lid I mentioned above. If a squirrel comes down the bungee cord and walks out on the lid, then the lid tips and the squirrel slides off onto the ground. They may try a dozen times, determined to get on the feeder, but in the end they fail. Once they learn that lesson then you can usually take the lid off and hook the feeder directly to the bungee cord and the squirrels, remembering they have been down the bungee cord before and fell off, will simply not try it with the lid off.