18 thoughts on “Sunday wildlife #1”

  1. This could transition to a discussion of how rodent incisors continue to grow. If not now, then when the walnut pix post.

  2. Occasionally I like to mess with the minds of the squirrels around the house. One time I set a cherry out on the front porch. A squirrel came by, circled the thing for half a minute and then sniffed it for another full minute before finally grabbing it and making off with it. Don’t know if it ever ate it or not.

    1. Juglans nigra or Juglans regia?

      I ask because the former, the black walnut, has a much thicker shell than the latter.

    2. When I was at University, I made many a fine lunch off the pecan trees that grew abundantly on campus. I could never figure out why I never saw any one else nomming them.

      1. Same thing with me and the medjool dates on the Arizona State University campus. Pure candy! Yes, when I went to school, we had honest-to-the-gods candy trees.

        b&

  4. This one’s already a messy eater…there’s the detritus on its left foreleg. I can only imagine the chaos of what we’ll see tomorrow….

    b&

  5. I have several mulberry trees and I don’t many of the berries between the birds, squirrels and now my dog who I saw pulling a berry & backing up until it came off the tree!

    I also have deer eat the apples on my tree but the apples are usually wormy anyway.

    There is a walnut tree across the street & I found the remains of one so I assume a chipmunk or squirrel ate it.

    1. Mulberries are the absolute best for birds and other creatures. In fact, my mulberries were “planted” by the birds.

      In them I’ve seen Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Brown Thrashers, Catbirds, Robins, Eastern Bluebirds, Eastern Kingbirds (yes they also eat berries!), Starlings, Crows, House Finches, Gold Finches, Cardinals, Blue Jays, and more species I’m forgetting ATM.

      Also Red Squirrels, Gray Squirrels, a huge Blue Racer snake (going after the birds), and a Woodchuck that will climb 10-15′ up into the tree for berries.

      We have three large Black Walnut Trees. I dislike Black Walnuts and am happy to leave them to the squirrels. (About once every couple of years or so someone comes to the door wanting to buy the trees for lumber.)

  6. Squirrels run along the privacy fence at the back of my lot and they drop walnut shells for my dogs to pick up. I won’t let the dogs keep them, which makes me a meanie.

  8. I give peanuts to scrub jays and they will pick it up fly to the fence and bang the peanut against the fence to crack it open.It works for them.Like to give them peanuts just to watch them do that.

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