I suppose there is a secret to skinning a squirrel. I have watched some YouTube videos on how to do it, and of course, these manly men get the skin off in short order. I did prepare squirrel stew once—and it was very good—but getting that skin off was so difficult I decided struggling with it wasn’t worth the effort, so nuisance squirrels that Richard shoots are offered to raccoons and opossums (whoever gets to it first).
But this time shortly after I put the
squirrel in the basket, I was very surprised to see a tufted titmouse land on
the squirrel and begin plucking fur for its nest. It collected quite a
beak-full...
and came back several times.
You’ll notice the duct tape on the feeder. That was to repair a crack in the plastic caused by a squirrel.
Richard can’t shoot them easily when they are on my side of the house (my side being where my office is), so I do have a live animal trap that I set and sometimes am successful at trapping them. Last week I trapped 4 squirrels in 3 days. The two squirrels that were here today stayed well clear of the trap, but I think that is probably because a chipmunk came and cleaned out the sunflower seeds I left as bait without activating the the trap.
At church yesterday morning, this book was on the pew where we sit.
If I can figure out how to outwit the squirrels, then I will be happy to not have Richard shoot them. Having looked through the book yesterday after church -- and it is very entertaining -- but it appears that outwitting squirrels is just about doomed to failure.
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I call them tree rats and they are so determined. They multiply in a hurry and are such pests :(
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