Very briefly, from Facebook a few minutes ago:
Aric Olnes reports that live oak acorns are falling where he and Mike are. Then:
— AZ: Yes, they are falling. There are several California live oaks just across the street from me. So squirrels can easily jump from them to the crape myrtle in front of my house and onto the arbor over my walkway. And so to my patio.
One of these squirrels has remembered, from months ago, the excellent soft dirt in the little garden strip on my patio. So fine for burying nuts. I spent some time yesterday barking at it (from inside the house) whenever it prepared to descend from the arbor to the garden, until it gave up energetically threatening me in return and finally carried its nut away, in a huff, to some more congenial spot.
It hasn’t come back today, but I view the current state as likely to be a temporary victory.
— AO > AZ: Squirrels 🐿️ usually win
— AZ > AO: They 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ are astoundingly persistent
I will say that I’ll never tire of watching squirrels leap through the air from tree to tree. The Flying Sciuridae!
September 9, 2024 at 12:21 pm |
Squirrels bury their acorns in the flowerpots and planters on my patio, I discovered.
September 9, 2024 at 1:05 pm |
Yes, that too. Eventually you get oak seedlings to uproot. (My squirrels have mighty poor memories, it seems.)