Woodpeckers and Squirrel Problems

I have noticed that Red-bellied Woodpeckers are just sitting on branches like a perching birds instead of climbing up trees. It just seems strange. Although there is finally a female red-belly in my yard, which i havn't seen since november.

another strange thing is that we have a racoon baffle on my feeder, but the squirrels have figured out how to leap 10 feet from the thinnest hemlock branch, and land right on the feeder.