I haven't seen any red squirrels for a long time. Sad. They get hit by cars and bred out.
I do have a little black one I call Zooey who comes to feed. Saw her today. She had babies up in my birch tree; my daughter saw them nursing. It appears she moved them because I feed a cat plus mine got out one day and scared her.
About two nights ago I saw an opossum feeding. They don't panic. When I opened the door, instead of climbing down the stoop, she came toward me by the porch rail and slid under it. They don't see well.
Last year I finally got a mother coon and her young one. So cute. They scurry off in a hurry if I startle them. I give them wide berth but enjoy watching them. Probably shouldn't feed them, usually what the birds don't eat in the daytime.
We now give raccoons a really, really wide birth. A little half-grown one walked right up to our dog, attacked her and then our daughter when she pulled it off the dog’s face.
Rabies shots all around.
I’ve only ever seen red squirrels in evergreens - one hemlock avenue in Massachusetts, an island in Vermont, and in Alaska.
The Alaskan ones hang mushrooms up in the tree to dry, and then put them in their food storage midden!
Last year I finally got a mother coon and her young one. So cute. They scurry off in a hurry if I startle them. I give them wide berth but enjoy watching them. Probably shouldn’t feed them, usually what the birds don’t eat in the daytime.
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I have two large, hard plastic garbage cans, a coon kept knocking them over, the lids stayed on so he chewed a hole in the bottom of them.
I know it was a coon, I caught the little bandit in the act.
Now I keep my garbage cans in my shed and he hasn’t figured out how to work a door knob..........................yet.