(paghat) wrote:


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Squirrels are highly territorial.

The most common squirrel in my part of the world [upstate NY] is the
Eastern Grey. These buggers are gregarious if the food supply will
support them.

A good description of these critters is at
http://spot.colorado.edu/~halloran/sq_grey.html

When I bought this house the neighbors were an elderly couple who
bought huge bags of old bread to feed the squirrels. Their feeder
looked like something out of a Hitchcock movie -- 50-60 squirrels is
no exaggeration.

Fox & reds are less common here [NY], and they don't like to share
with the greys.

If I planted an entire orchard of nuts and did nothing to decrease the
squirrel population, I would get to see a lot of squirrels, but would
never have any nuts. As it is I enjoy some of my harvest, and
frequent dinners of 'Squirrel spaghetti' -- the sauce does wonders for
tenderizing their otherwise rather tough meat.

Jim