Fun with wildlife
Feb. 3rd, 2012 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sessifetSo I got yelled at by a squirrel today.
I had spotted three of them bouncing around and chasing each other up, in and around the oak tree in the garden. earlier in the morning. Now, I know grey squirrels are considered not much better than tree-rats, but I like them anyway. Not to the extent of feeding them (unless there was a massive acorn shortage and they're all about to starve to death because there is nothing else. In this area, though, that is unlikely to happen), but I like watching them go about their business. So I spent a happy 10-15 minutes at the window, sipping my coffee and watching squirrel steeplechase. Having eventually figured out they're probably doing some preliminary mating things, I wandered off into the living room to play a game.
Some time later, I went out and labelled some ash trees for removal/cutting back in the next few weeks (hopefully that'll kill some *and* allow the wood to mature for spring and hugelkultur bed). While I'm there, I decide to bend back some of the branches and stuff that's blocking the path out of the garden. Being thus occupied and not paying much attention, I assume the rustling noise behind me is either Jazz or Loki (or even both) keeping me company.
Until I turn around and there's a squirrel right on the leylandia trunk in front of me. He was not happy with me at all. I can only assume he thought I was stealing his acorns or something. Or maybe he thought I was going to steal his mate? You never know, after all. You can't trust those tricksy humans. But he was not going to let me get away with it (whatever it was) untold. No acorns for me! Or a squirrel girlfriend, for that matter.
He scolds me for a few more seconds and then scurries back up the tree.
Huh.
Gardening: more interesting than you'd think...
I had spotted three of them bouncing around and chasing each other up, in and around the oak tree in the garden. earlier in the morning. Now, I know grey squirrels are considered not much better than tree-rats, but I like them anyway. Not to the extent of feeding them (unless there was a massive acorn shortage and they're all about to starve to death because there is nothing else. In this area, though, that is unlikely to happen), but I like watching them go about their business. So I spent a happy 10-15 minutes at the window, sipping my coffee and watching squirrel steeplechase. Having eventually figured out they're probably doing some preliminary mating things, I wandered off into the living room to play a game.
Some time later, I went out and labelled some ash trees for removal/cutting back in the next few weeks (hopefully that'll kill some *and* allow the wood to mature for spring and hugelkultur bed). While I'm there, I decide to bend back some of the branches and stuff that's blocking the path out of the garden. Being thus occupied and not paying much attention, I assume the rustling noise behind me is either Jazz or Loki (or even both) keeping me company.
Until I turn around and there's a squirrel right on the leylandia trunk in front of me. He was not happy with me at all. I can only assume he thought I was stealing his acorns or something. Or maybe he thought I was going to steal his mate? You never know, after all. You can't trust those tricksy humans. But he was not going to let me get away with it (whatever it was) untold. No acorns for me! Or a squirrel girlfriend, for that matter.
He scolds me for a few more seconds and then scurries back up the tree.
Huh.
Gardening: more interesting than you'd think...
