There isn’t much meat on a maple samara, so this Eastern Grey was rootling and grubbing and chomping. Each picture above is a different samara. Then suddenly…
She found a piece of paper bag. She stuffed one end into her mouth and crushed the rest of it to herself.
And carried it across the street and up a linden tree and into a hole. The overhanging branches prevented me from getting a picture of the entry, but…
She emerged to gave me the eye afterwards.
One year ago, this same hole was the entrance to a Starling nest.
Mammal Monday
3 responses to “Mammal Monday”
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Litter reuse. I like it!
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Oh my, the cutest squirrel pics ever!!!
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[…] Grey Squirrel gnawing on a bone. You know, one of those bones you find downslope from the road where the garbage piles up…. I suspect this is like the recycling of deer antlers by mice and other mammals in the forest. Going for the calcium? This may well be the nesting female seen earlier this month. […]
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