Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day

With over 250 species of squirrels to exist across the five continents, squirrels help bury nuts into the ground, a behaviour called caching, that allows them to assist with fruit and tree renewal, because while some will be able to remember where they buried the nuts, others will not.

Squirrels, however, don’t just eat nuts and seeds; they also eat mushroom spores. By eating the spores and then excreting them after they’re digested, the fungi help matter decompose and gives plants the nutrition they need to grow.

Thus, squirrels help maintain the symbolic relationship between plants and mushrooms and help spread the growth of plants all over the world. Squirrels, whether they’re ground, tree, or flying squirrels, all have their unique purpose in the global ecosystem.

There will will be one tapping on my patio door shortly asking for his breakfast.

 

Nuts

 

Whole Hazel nuts, Cadbury take them and they cover them in chocolate

 

We have one that stares in the window to see what we are up to

 

Thank you,we will let you know if we need you.

 

Hmmm, you left out the “Ooh!” Baz.......poor effort really

 

Reminds me of the old Topic joke....

q) what’s got a hazelnut in every bite?


a) squirrel sh*t

 

We've got a couple of regulars that do the Mission-Impossible thing along the power cables. They make a right racket when they're annoyed.

 

Them Greys are interlopers!

#LetsGetGreyxitDone!

 

Raaaaaacist!

#checkyourgreyprivilege

 

What's a squirrels favourite kind of nut?



Cachews!
You heard it here first ....
and I don't own any coats.

 

@Barry Haynes used to bury his nuts in the flower beds by the Leisure Centre. I think he was just bored. The police moved him on.

 

Jacket

 

Thus, squirrels help maintain the symbiotic relationship between plants and mushrooms...

 

Sounds like everybody’s a fruit and nutcase

 

seen two red squirrels in my sad life. Both in the Lake District. One at Ashness Bridge in 2010 and one last year in Ulswater while in my bay. Maybe one of its mates said there was a couple of massive nuts in a campervan in the next field.

You can take that two ways I suppose

 

There are reds in the pine woods at Formby but they had pox in the last few years which has cut the numbers down also seen a few in woods in Rydal, Cumbria - the greys chased the reds from the Ruff Wood in Ormskirk ( I actually saw a grey confronting a red which then had to run away). The greys are cute looking but in Mere Sands near us they actually trap and shoot them - apart from competing with reds they damage the bark on the trees.

 

Come on ye Reds!