#squirrel logic

[robinlynnemabin]

Harriet Tubman, Squirrel Logic vs The Coronavirus: 619-768-2945

[bwabbitv3s]

Squirrel Logic

Why eat the chunk of suet sitting on the fence when you can hand upside down and chew on the suet in the suet cage. Oh well, this is why I bought a second suet cage at lest now the birds and the squirrel can eat at the same time.

[walnuthulls]

Squirrels

So, the recent rainstorm brought down half a squirrel's nest in our yard. I rolled it over and it seemed to be uninhabited. Lots of twigs, what looks like cedar/juniper bark and the modern equivalent, some shredded cardboard. 

Looking up, however, about 25' or so in the air, there was something dangling from the end of a branch, more or less right below the remainder of the nest. Something grey and floppy. :-( I got out my binoculars, zoomed in on the object... and found that it was a dirty grey terrycloth shop towel. After the great basement flood of '14, there were some of those out thrown out in the yard to dry/be disposed of. 

Apparently, some squirrel expropriated one of them for his or her nest. Most likely, that's why half the nest collapsed - the heavy rain soaked the towel and it pulled away from the rest of the structure. I went back in to get the camera to take a picture of the towel, and came back to find the squirrel checking it out. He (or she) took exception to the camera and ran back up the branch.

[epicomic]