To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a squirrel fall from a tree. You live in a rarefied world, Catherine. Now I have something else to worry about.
When I look up from my office monitor, I see the canopy of a massive oak tree, which the young squirrels have turned into the Indy 500 racetrack. I gasp as they leap from branch to branch. Quite distracting when I'm trying to write!
So funny. When we still had the tree where we hung bird feeders in our front yard, the squirrels would hang from the bottom of the feeder with their back legs and hike themselves over the edge to eat seeds. As many times as I chased them off, they would just run back up the tree and sit there looking at me until I moved away, then go back to their meal. I would now and then be able to sneak up behind them to within an inch of touching them (trying to give them a good scare at least) but they always knew I was there before I touched them.
Squirrels are determined, that's for sure. Melissa strung a bird feeder between deck and tree to keep it away from squirrels. They would have had to leap six feet and cling to the swinging feeder. One day I watched a squirrel do just that.
We have a lot of squirrels but I have never seen any of them fall out of trees. But my guess is you have now jinxed me. Thanks Catherine.
I hate to worry alone!
To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a squirrel fall from a tree. You live in a rarefied world, Catherine. Now I have something else to worry about.
When I look up from my office monitor, I see the canopy of a massive oak tree, which the young squirrels have turned into the Indy 500 racetrack. I gasp as they leap from branch to branch. Quite distracting when I'm trying to write!
So funny. When we still had the tree where we hung bird feeders in our front yard, the squirrels would hang from the bottom of the feeder with their back legs and hike themselves over the edge to eat seeds. As many times as I chased them off, they would just run back up the tree and sit there looking at me until I moved away, then go back to their meal. I would now and then be able to sneak up behind them to within an inch of touching them (trying to give them a good scare at least) but they always knew I was there before I touched them.
Squirrels are determined, that's for sure. Melissa strung a bird feeder between deck and tree to keep it away from squirrels. They would have had to leap six feet and cling to the swinging feeder. One day I watched a squirrel do just that.