We have a guest!!! Finally after years....eleven or ten to give a time frame of this bird house being empty we have a squirrly occupying the space. This squirrel has been around all Winter as I admired his big furry gray tail. He was a plump lil guy, too. I'd see him somewhere in the woods or near our house almost everyday, and this is one of the squirrly's that "stole" some fleece material from a chair that is in our trailer for the dump. So Kwintyn & I really enjoyed watching him all Winter. Well I'm re-thinking the "He" thing....I think it's a She. I think she has made a nest in there, and might have given birth, or will be soon? I don't know much about squirrels so I don't know what this squirrel's behavior means, but I think it means babies. I noticed her out there in the bird house at 7:00am, and was still in there at 11:00am, and just shortly after that she was on top on the bird house. (Pic B) I never seen a squirrel lay like this, and with their tail flat like that. She layer there like that for a while, and then went back in to the house, and sat like (Pic A) again. She was sitting like (Pic A) all day, or she would be inside the box where you couldn't see her. I scared her off by walking over to the bird house, I didn't want to scare her, but I wasn't sure if it was injured. But she climbed out and up the tree she went so I knew she wasn't hurt and her tail was fluffy & curvy again. I was sad that I scared her off, but I had a feeling she would be back, and yep, she is. I was so excited to see her back again, Frank said I was nuts....I literally got all giggly & jumped up & down. Hahaha!! It's exciting, I love watching these little guys.
When I tell people we have squirrels in the yard they all say to shoot them. I say why?! Cause they can ruin your house. Well so far we haven't had any problem with squirrels trying to ruin the house, not even mice get in! Ok, so there was this one time a mouse got in.....no thanks to the boys!!! A mouse got stuck in the window well and so what do they do?! Open the window, that had no screen. So that sent the cats off, and Rubie ended up catching it,and bring it upstairs, and when I screamed at her, she dropped it, and it laid there looking dead....it wasn't dead. It darts off again and finally I caught it, and let it loose outside. LOL!!! Ran off....you're welcome, Mouse. So I ain't gonna kill it. If you know me, I am not a Hunter just not my thing as I am such a girly girl and hate getting my hands dirty, but I have nothing wrong with it as I was brought up with many Hunters in the family. So nothing against Hunters, okay. :) I just failed that test with my Dad. And I just can't kill anything that I think is so darn cute!!!! I only shoot with my camera. ;)
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