Squirrel Outwits Baffle on Bird Feeder

In April of 2018 a squirrel kept getting on my feeder in my Topeka KS yard. The feeder hangs from a shepherd’s hook that had a squirrel baffle on it. I’d seen squirrels on the feeder when they could jump to it from a tree branch or some other structure. But this feeder had no branches nearby. I just couldn’t figure out how he was getting to the feeder, so I set up the camera and after many tries caught him in the act. Watch as he leaps past the baffle. I had to slow down the video to see exactly how he was getting past the baffle. Squirrels are truly amazing. I remedied the situation by repositioning the pole so it was perpendicular to the ground.