A crafty squirrel has discovered it can steal the garden birds' nuts by simply jumping over a bird feeder protector.<br /><br />Terrifying footage, filmed on a mobile phone, shows the nut-lover launching itself from the ground and leaping over the plastic shield in an English country garden before gorging itself on nuts.<br /><br />The countryside menace is also shown terrorising local birds as it attempts to work out how to get to the bird feeder. <br />The video starts with the grey squirrel scrambling up the pole holding the nuts before falling down when it hits the plastic protector.<br /><br />Not to be perturbed it has another go before discovering it can get around the obstacle by jumping from the ground. <br /><br />A second clip then shows the squirrel leaping past the protector and climbing to the top of the pole before grabbing the nuts. A green net above the three bird feeders is there to perturb parakeets.<br />This is Money editor Richard Browning filmed the squirrel's devastating actions. 'I've been at war with this squirrel for at least a year,' he said. 'I thought I'd won... but I filmed this last week'.<br /><br />Gardeners are also known to deploy metal cages and pet cats in a desperate attempt to keep squirrels off their bird feeders.<br />