jmcquown wrote:
Nancy Young wrote:
"Blinky the Shark" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)

Fox squirrel.

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Dave Smith wrote:
jmcquown wrote:

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are grey)



It's odd, but they change colour from one place to another. Most of the
squirrels around her are grey. I got in trouble with my wife a few years
ago because something got chewed up by a reddish squirrel. I still don't
understand why it was my fault, but she rejected that the squirrel was red
and thought I had lied about that. It was more than a year before she saw
that little red ******* and I was forgiven.

Some one once called her a racist because she said all the squirrels in
Toronto are black. She grew up there and the squirrels are black there.
Around here they are almost all grey.

I say an interesting on the other day while bicycling along the Niagara
Parkway. Just before I got to Niagara on the Lake I saw one that was grey
with a white tail. I saw an albino squirrel in a park in Montreal. I took
a picture of it with my digital camera and for some reason the bottom half
of the picture was blacked out.

Further north the squirrels are mostly red squirrels. While the red and
grey variations are the same species. Greys and blacks are variations of
the same species.

You only missed fox squirrels, such as the one in the image.

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Default User wrote:
jmcquown wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:
"Blinky the Shark" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It could a gray. Wikipedia mentions that their fur can have a reddish
tinge. There is a North American red squirrel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel

Reds are much smaller than fox squirrels, one of which is pictured in my
link.


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Use your strengths to best your foes: http://tinyurl.com/8fs52 Are we
foodies or what? Edrena

LOL.... I have to wonder about any recipe that calls for one squirrel
and says to cut it into pieces. Unless the squirrels where the author
lives are a hell of a lot bigger than the guys around here, the
recipes must be for one.

I grew up hunting squrrels in the midwest. Fox squirrels. Red
squirrels weren't worth it. Black squirrels were what lived in town,
with the very occasional grey squirrel. No, there's not a ton of eating
on any of them; better bag more than one if the family's going to be
sitting down to dinner. Recipe? My grandmother just cut them up
and fried them. She probably floured them first; that's what I did,
later, when I cooked them.


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Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.
nancy

Squirrels. Nature's little speedbumps

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jmcquown wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:
"Blinky the Shark" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.

Did you say fat? Might've been this one.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/squirrel400.jpg

OMG! Is that a squirrel??

nancy

Looks like a big FAT red squirrel to me! (the ones around here are
grey)

It could a gray. Wikipedia mentions that their fur can have a reddish
tinge. There is a North American red squirrel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel

Reds are much smaller than fox squirrels, one of which is pictured in my
link.


I grew up in Cleveland Oh where the squirrels were always red and remember when
I first reaklized that sqiurrels in columbus were grey. 2o years later seems
normal, but at first only having ever seen the red squirrels it made it feel
like I had moved to another planet!!
to sleep so i got up and slammed the window shut becaus
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Nancy Young wrote:

"Steve Wertz" wrote

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:56:45 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

How did he get out of the house? What kind of cookies were they?

Chocolate chip. He wasn't in the house, the box was on the
stoop under the mailbox.

Heck, the poor dude probably just woke up from hibernation. I'd
be hungry after 4 month, too!

I can't believe what a racket he was making. He looked pretty
darned fat, no doubt from raiding my bird feeders.


See, they know to come to your house 'cos they know you are a good cook and
provider, etc...those squirrels are pretty smart "cookies".

;-P

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"Nancy Young" wrote:

... thank you to the most generous person on the planet,
never mind rfc. It was dropped off on my stoop by the
mailman, I didn't notice it when I brought in the mail.

As I stood in the kitchen making crab cakes and coleslaw
for dinner, I keep hearing this noise. Thought it was the
garbage settling. Well, how long does a bag of garbage
need to settle, for pete's sake.

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

nancy

Squirrel for supper? :-)
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"Dave Smith" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and was
eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to
re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird feeders,
they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what. I'm getting a
supersoaker for next year, I can give them a blast of water
right through the kitchen window. I tried throwing ice cubes
at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw through a window.

nancy

There is squirrel proofing available for the bird feeders...
Dome tops to go over them.
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James Silverton wrote:
Nancy wrote on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:50:02 -0400:

Nancy Young wrote:

It wasn't the garbage.

http://i7.tinypic.com/4bdzw9j.jpg

Some squirrel had broken into the box on the stoop and
was eating my cookies. Good thing he got away before I
caught him.

Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them
when we had cats around. My project for this week is to
pick up a live trap and to re-locate the local population
one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird
feeders, they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what.
I'm getting a supersoaker for next year, I can give them a
blast of water right through the kitchen window. I tried
throwing ice cubes at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw
through a window.

I never did make any serious dent in my squirrel population.
When we first moved into the house we tried to grow peaches
without success because the rats ate them first. To add insult
to injury they would sit on the doorstep cracking the pits and
leaving the debris. One year I caught 20 of them with a
Have-a-Hart trap and released them five miles away but I still
got no peaches since the neighbors seemed to just move in. I
restrained myself from killing them and only one died when the
next door cat saw the trap with a squirrel in it and seemed to
have spent the afternoon provoking the rodent because it died
from apparent exhaustion.

I had a plastic "squirrel-proof" bird feeder but the beasts ate
it!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

I have to store the bird seed *inside the house*. My apartment patio has a
built-in storage shed and for a while I thought I had rats... real ones, not
the tree kind. A friend gave me a heavy duty plastic tub to store the bird
seed in and - you got it. It was chewed right through. One day sitting
outside I watched as a squirrel literally flattened itself (I thought only
mice could do that? disjoint their bones that way?) and went under the
locked door. Now I keep the bird seed inside. It's not as convenient but
it saves on bird seed.

Curse the squirrels that were eating Nancy's cookies! (I just realized how
funny that sounded.)

Jill

You could use a _metal_ trash can to store feed in. That's what I use to
store my pet emu's grain.
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Delightful!
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Delightful!


LOL!!!!

People pay lots of money to go on rides like that!!!!



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Nancy Young wrote:



Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to
re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird feeders,
they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what. I'm getting a
supersoaker for next year, I can give them a blast of water
right through the kitchen window. I tried throwing ice cubes
at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw through a window.


The squirrel population has increased drastically. They have been digging
up my spring bulbs, and they run across the road,tempting my dogs to chase
them. Today I broke down and bought a squirrel size live trap so I can
catch the little *******s and re-locate them. I could not find the traps
in the store and had to ask for help. A nice sales clerk led the way to
the shelf where they were located. Perfect. I could not resist asking if
they box included the recipe book :-)

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Dave Smith wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:



Curse those tree rats. We never had a problem with them when we had cats
around. My project for this week is to pick up a live trap and to
re-locate
the local population one at a time.

Honestly. All winter I was fighting them for the bird feeders,
they wouldn't leave them alone no matter what. I'm getting a
supersoaker for next year, I can give them a blast of water
right through the kitchen window. I tried throwing ice cubes
at them but my aim stinks, hard to throw through a window.


The squirrel population has increased drastically. They have been digging
up my spring bulbs, and they run across the road,tempting my dogs to chase
them. Today I broke down and bought a squirrel size live trap so I can
catch the little *******s and re-locate them. I could not find the traps
in the store and had to ask for help. A nice sales clerk led the way to
the shelf where they were located. Perfect. I could not resist asking if
they box included the recipe book :-)

Best and easy squirrel bait:

Mix up some peanut butter with oatmeal to solidify it.

Good luck!
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Omelet wrote:


The squirrel population has increased drastically. They have been digging
up my spring bulbs, and they run across the road,tempting my dogs to chase
them. Today I broke down and bought a squirrel size live trap so I can
catch the little *******s and re-locate them. I could not find the traps
in the store and had to ask for help. A nice sales clerk led the way to
the shelf where they were located. Perfect. I could not resist asking if
they box included the recipe book :-)

Best and easy squirrel bait:

Mix up some peanut butter with oatmeal to solidify it.


Sounds delicious :-) I make oatmeal almost every day for breakfast but we
never have peanut butter in the house.