I think the squirrel was hungry on my bird feeding station. 
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Hungry squirrel on my bird station
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Jacob Petersheim
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I imagine your squirrels are acting like those here, hiding as much away as they can grab.
Nancy Hart
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(Likely) a squirrel buried a pecan in one of my flowerpots one time. When I pulled it out the pecan shell was still stuck to the roots.
Jacob Petersheim
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I read something today that says this is a "mast year" here in my area.
Those are years when trees produce a surplus of seeds such as acorns. I don't have nearby oaks, but the maple trees sure did drop a lot of seeds this year.
But as far as I can tell there is not a surplus of black walnuts. There are a few nearby trees and in some years I have to clean up piles of black walnuts in the hull that the squirrels relocate over to my back yard. I have yelled at a squirrel once so far this year when I saw him with a walnut in his mouth bringing it over the fence, but just the one time.
The article I read said that trees of the same species "agree upon" a mast year, theoretically communicating via roots that reach out and graft onto each other. But that sounds like superstitious animism to me.
Those are years when trees produce a surplus of seeds such as acorns. I don't have nearby oaks, but the maple trees sure did drop a lot of seeds this year.
But as far as I can tell there is not a surplus of black walnuts. There are a few nearby trees and in some years I have to clean up piles of black walnuts in the hull that the squirrels relocate over to my back yard. I have yelled at a squirrel once so far this year when I saw him with a walnut in his mouth bringing it over the fence, but just the one time.
The article I read said that trees of the same species "agree upon" a mast year, theoretically communicating via roots that reach out and graft onto each other. But that sounds like superstitious animism to me.