Yard critters

[tamrock]

Now that the grocery stores have the mixed nuts in for the holidays I get to share some with the neighborhood squirrels. I get to be real popular around here on these cold days.

 

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[Old Dude]

I am waiting on colder weather so the bears aren't still out and about and I will be making some suet for the birds. The critters have to eat too!

 

[BosnMate]

Is that another picture through your window?

 

[tamrock]

Is that another picture through your window?

10-4. I stick nuts in the bark of the cottonwood out in the front yard.

 

[BosnMate]

One time, long ago, I got a huge sack of hazel nuts, something like 40 or 50 pounds. Every day I would put some nuts into the bark of a large cedar tree next door. I'm pretty sure I had the squirrels convinced that cedars grew hazel nuts. Ran out of hazel nuts, so started feeding peanuts on the ground. Bluejays would take the peanuts and hide them, and the squirrels would sniff them out and either eat them or re-hide them someplace else. Quit feeding the critters when my wife got so sick, and just never have got back into it.

 

[tamrock]

I see the squirrels here when they're being watched by the blue jays fake them out by doing the whole dig and bury routine as a bluff. I'll see the squirrel run away with the nut still in his mouth and the blue jay fly down to were it thinks the nut was just buried only to find out it was fooled. The blue jay will then fly off in the direction the squirrel went looking for him.