3. I have one in my backyard that's quite entertaining.
He does backflips off the trunk of our live oak, and plays with the wisteria vines on top of the pergola if I'm outside. We do feed him walnuts, and he figured out the bird feeder. Cute little fellow.
6. Few months back I saw a squirrel plummet from a tree top down onto my roof edge and then
roll off the roof edge: it's another twenty feet down to the ground from there. Dead squirrel, I thought. I'll have to go claim the body. So I strolled around the side of the house to look for where it fell. Not a sign of it anywhere. Poor thing musta still been motive
7. Last winter a squirrel was raiding our old bird feeder,
when the cord holding the feeder snapped. The squirrel had an "OH, SHIT!" expression on its face as the feeder plunged down about 12 feet to the concrete below. Apparently unhurt and unfazed, the same squirrel resumed the raids when we repaired the feeder. We don't begrudge the squirrels (although we refer to them as "the best-fed squirrels in North America") because of their entertainment value. I've gotten a couple to accept peanuts from my hand and the mama squirrel had a batch of four babies that lived and played in our cedar tree in the front yard.
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