Getting quite a belly.

[worldtalker]

Half ear is really getting that midriff bulge.




Two days ago earlier morning waiting their turn to eat.



GOD Bless

Chris

 

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[DizzyDigger]

It certainly looks like he's not missing many meals. Without that body
fat he'd have a tough time making it through the winters.

Do those squirrels ever hibernate?

 

[worldtalker]

It certainly looks like he's not missing many meals. Without that body
fat he'd have a tough time making it through the winters. View attachment 1891663

Do those squirrels ever hibernate?

I do make sure they are well fed,along with all the critters around here. No,they are active year round Dizz.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Squirrels will hole up in bad weather but they don't actually hibernate like bears. I love those black squirrels they have up in MI. Gary

 

[tamrock]

Squirrels will hole up in bad weather but they don't actually hibernate like bears. I love those black squirrels they have up in MI. Gary

Black squirrels are also in Illinois TP. My mom was cub scout den mother many moons ago when we lived in Kewanee, Illinois. I remember she and other mommy's took us little cubbies on a field trip to the Rock Island Arsenal and I was blown away to see Black Squirrels running all over. Looks like they still live in the area of the Quad Cities and how they got there is unclear.

https://www.wvik.org/post/are-black-squirrels-native-quad-cities#stream/0

 

[tamrock]

I got some panhander squirrels in my tree and like the one in your first picture one who's the biggest has fuzzy ears. I'm not sure, but that might be because he's the oldest. He's the one that chases all the other squirrels away when he comes around, so he can have it all. I think of him as the neighborhood bully.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Never knew they were in IL. We only have fox and grey here. Small area of red squirrels I think in Ford Co. White squirrels south of here near Olney. Colored tree rats! Gary

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I live so far up the holler that I seldom see other people.

I don't hunt or kill critters - but I don't remember the last time I saw a squirrel. A squirrel isn't a meal by itself, so who tha heck killed all the squirrels around here?

 

[Megalodon]

Never knew they were in IL. We only have fox and grey here. Small area of red squirrels I think in Ford Co. White squirrels south of here near Olney. Colored tree rats! Gary

Black squirrels are the same species as grey squirrels, just a melanistic variant caused by a recessive gene. White squirrels are albino grey squirrels and like true albinos, have pink eyes. The Fox squirrels are a different species.

 

[DizzyDigger]

I live so far up the holler that I seldom see other people.
I don't hunt or kill critters - but I don't remember the last time I saw a squirrel. A squirrel isn't
a meal by itself, so who tha heck killed all the squirrels around here?

I'd guess it was the other critters living up in that holler..

To a weasel, owl, hawk, snake, etc. that squirrel is a feast.

 

[smokeythecat]

You better stop feeding him so much. He'll get diabetes and you'll have to give him shots!

 

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