Nut burying

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Miss Squirrel having a rest after burying peanuts all over the neighbourhood.

The amount of nuts buried in the gardens surrounding ours we should have a peanut plantation growing, trouble is as fast as Miss Squirrel bury's them one of the other squirrels comes round digs them up and reburies them somewhere else.

Until tomorrow...

It had to happen sometime.

Miss Squirrel came trotting along the fence, she stopped and looked at me, then came a little closer.

She stopped again, looked at me I just looked back and said "come on then what are you waiting for?"

She leapt from the fence to the table, she missed her footing and all I saw were her two back feet and her tail.

I jumped up expecting to see Miss Squirrel on the floor in a heap, hurt really badly it is a high fall for a small squirrel. Before I reached the door to go outside this is what I could see through the window.

Miss Squirrel not hurt but sitting on the table chewing on a hazel nut shell, which in a few more seconds she was up and running back down the fence to where ever she is storing her hazel nuts!

Todays photo of the day

Great Spotted Woodpecker

A very welcome visitor and it even looks like he is managing to eat some parrot bar without being disturbed.

Until tomorrow...

A perfect show

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 Perfect show on how to pick up a hazel nut.

Miss Squirrel has become an expert at stealing along the fence to the table and taking a nut without being heard, it's the scramble back up the fence that usually gives her away. However sometimes I do manage to catch her, it is amazing how carefully she picks up the nut as if she thinks it will break if she does the wrong thing.

Until tomorrow...

A treat

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Miss Squirrel and her first hazel nut.

It must be nearly Christmas there are nuts in the supermarkets! We thought we would treat the squirrels and bought a bag of mixed nuts. Miss Squirrel looked amazed when she saw them, it didn't take her long to decide what to do though. She picked up a hazel nut and ran.

Until tomorrow...

In the mirror

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Through the mirror, things look closer than they are!

It was raining, it was cold, I was fed up and the car behind was getting closer. I have discovered if I take a photo through the mirror they back off.

Until tomorrow...

The Great Spotted Woodpecker gets buzzed.

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The Great Spotted Woodpecker.

The juvenile woodpecker has been visiting the garden for a while now eating the parrot bars I put out for the squirrels. He was minding his own business this morning when suddenly he was buzzed by a flock of Collar Doves. I had just tried to take a shot of the woodpecker as the doves flew by, the result of this made the doves look like a group of spooky ghostly doves, or at least to me it did.

Until tomorrow...

Squirrels need new nutboxes...

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Miss Squirrel enjoying a monkey nut on the nut box.

The nut box is in need of repair, Tony is going to mend it when he has the time, at the moment he is busy building a Hedgehog hopefully to get a hedgehog hibernating for the winter.

It is a very posh house all lined and waterproof very snug and cosy. I wonder if the squirrels might like it? I bet they go for a look.

The garden is very quiet again at the moment apart from the squirrels, I thought it was livening up a bit but no the birds are just not showing themselves at all.

Until tomorrow...