With the sunshine, even if a chilly day, the squirrels are busy gathering nuts for the long winter. The red squirrel is smart by stashing his in the oak tree but the other squirrels are digging holes in my lawn and burying them. I don’t know how they will get the nuts back once the ground freezes hard and buried under snow but apparently their keen sense of smell can help them locate nuts buried under a foot of snow. But because they don’t relocate all their buried stash of the estimated 1,000 to 10,000 nuts each autumn, the squirrel is the Johnny Appleseed of trees; a forest planter as many new trees sprout the next year, including all the ones in my flower pots!
Nutty Squirrel
The nut looks to big for his mouth…Hope he get busy before the snow…
Squirrels are busy here gathering the Black Walnuts. At least we don’t have to rake them up each fall, as the squirrels take care of them for us.