Flying Squirrel - NOT!

We have a bird feeder outside our bedroom, visible from the bed, and while enjoying our morning coffee Patty spotted an Eastern Gray Squirrel on the feeder, munching away on the sunflower seeds.

"How'd it get up past the baffle cone?", she wondered out loud. It had to be jumping from somewhere, but we had placed the feeder without a convenient launching point.

Or so we thought. Obviously we were wrong.

Banging on the window got it to scurry off. Only to return a bit later.

And this time Patty saw it jump. "It's from the roof!", she exclaimed. So it was, as you can see by clinking that link, or here.

Although it doesn't always stick the landing ...