This snap will set off any trees that might have been lagging behind in their inevitable changes toward dormancy...
The squirrels are in such an anxious frenzy, so much so that I pity them...
I imagine their lives to be, as Hobbes said of the life of men, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short...
There are two that visit frequently expecting last year's hickory nuts, or something, anything...
One is missing half his tail. Nik calls him "Knuckles"... He's quite demanding, once sitting outside my window chirping angrily at me for 5 full minutes before I went and gave up the goods.
2 summers ago we experienced a similar situation with an excessively expressive and demanding fellow, and Nik named him "Knuckles" He was a big fella, and had the most enormous and impressive tail of any squirrel I'd ever seen. Could have been from the pound of peanuts we fed him over the course of a month... which explains his high food donation expectancy levels.
However this summer, we have a much more frail squirrel, likely having experienced some illness from the loss of half the tail. We think it's the same squirrel these days because of the behaviors...
He's been given some American chestnuts I've had in the freezer for a year, 2 dozen hickory nuts, some sunflower seeds, and a few shelled walnuts. He still looks pretty thin and scruffy... so we're trying to help him build strength for the winter ahead... yes, i know it's weird.
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