Squirrels and Hmongs

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

We have a couple of squirrels that we feed in a tree outside our kitchen window. High up I stick an ear of corn on a nail that they pick off the kernels one by one and eat only the germ. The rest of the kernel gets dropped for the birds that eat off the ground. I also have a gallon glass jar about six feet high that the scrappy little animals have to go inside to grab the raw unshelled peanuts that I drop in each evening. Obviously, they hate going inside to grab the nuts but dash in quickly to grab one to eat Outside or carry away to hoard and bury for later. Lately, I’ve collected the pits from the Bing cherries we love to snack on raw and mix those hard-shelled pits in with the peanuts. Those little pits get grabbed even before the peanuts. If they are planting them I should have cherry trees sprouting all over our yard. Scrappy little Fox Squirrels are just fun to watch.

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