A good day indeed. Icy cold but thankfully no rain.
Raining now again here though, but it's good as we need the water.
Maybe you can get them to eat avocados :)
Here's a short video for you of Marian with "squirry".
"Squirry" is the mother of the 5 hooligans.
Show this to your kids!
Ha, this is awesome. I will take them it. They will be blown away and want the same with the squirrels we see in the garden!!
Just beware my friend, squirrels bite. It is a very gradual friendship to form that takes patience and many nuts lol.
I don't doubt it. The ones here are quite shut shy, then again for nuts who knows!!
Yeah, they absolutely like raw peanuts in the shell.
When you see them often in one area, it means there's either food or their territory.
Find an open spot and drop a few nuts there.
If the nuts are gone the next day then drop a few more and so on.
They are intelligent and will start associating you with the nuts.
Soon they will regard you as no danger to them and that's when the fun starts.
I think we will try it, there agree a couple nearby and one that visits our garden. Will try there first, although I suspect the bloody wood pigeons will be on the nuts first. We have loads of the buggers, then and crows!
Okay, crows don't eat peanuts in the shell over here.
We have some doves that are very clever.
They wait for the squirrels to open and eat the nuts, as they always mess crumbs and once the squirrels leave then the doves come to the party.
We have to keep a watch though, as there are many predatory birds here that can take a squirrel in one swoop. Don't know if you have any there!
Or crows are quite arrogant and clever, I had to stop getting milk delivered because they manage to lift the flap of the box it was left in and peck holes in the carton to get at the inside and I had no idea that they liked milk.
Maybe they just like destruction, lol.
We do have birds of prey. We have hawks and there is a bigger one nearby, not sure if it is an eagle. We joke about it being the great condor when we see it high above in the thermals