Jack in the Box

For the past three evenings I have had a new squirrel coming to the garden for his tea. I believe he may come very early in the morning with his mum but in the evening he arrives on his own and his behaviour is very amusing and well worth watching.
Last evening for instance, it took him ages to climb from the low roof at the end of the garden onto the fence and as I watched him from an upstairs window I thought he looked as if he was scared of heights! He dithered and went backwards and forwards several times as though he were looking for an easy way to get down onto the fence and once there he appeared to 'freeze' as if he was getting up courage to make the short jump over to the corner so that he could then climb down the trellis into the garden.
Eventually he makes it to the nut box but he obviously hasn't been paying attention to his mum because instead of sitting on the lid of the box once he's got his peanut, he sits on the narrow shelf in the front and so consequently loses his balance and falls off. After this had happened several times on Friday he tried to keep the lid open but it kept falling onto his head so he ended up sitting in the box. When he had finished his peanut he decided the only way to stop his head being bashed was to slide into the box and sit there but the problem came when he had finished. He twisted round and tried to climb onto the lid but got his back foot caught in the box!
Now he has his very own method of avoiding falling off or getting caught. He stands on the shelf in front facing the box, lifts the lid and sticks his head in and eats his peanuts with his head inside the box while balancing the lid of the box on his head so that it doesn't bash him.
He has repeated this last behaviour for the last three nights so I have decided to call him 'Jack in the Box'!