Inside a squirrel's nest..

[Nevilledog]

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[SheltieLover]

1. Adorable!

Ty for sharing!

[Nevilledog]

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[SheltieLover]

14. I love squirrels!

[CrispyQ]

2. Many thanks for sharing!

In just a couple of weeks, the number of squirrels in our area has decreased significantly. I know some neighbors don't like them one bit.

[LakeArenal]

3. As much as I hate red squirrels, they are cute as heck.

Red squirrels ate the plastic fender on our lawn tractor. One got in the house and before we could catch it it chewed many feet of trim around windows.

My friend raised an orphan and we used to have a friendly argument on the value of red squirrels.

But they are cute.

[zuul]

4. Nice crib she has!

[UTUSN]

5. Just missing the can of beer and the futon.

[Marthe48]

6. I was watching the gray squirrels in my yard

as I did the dishes. They are so entertaining We got a rope cable years ago at a sale for $1 and tied it across the gap between the 2 big trees. The squirrels love their 'highway' And the water, and the food.

[SharonClark]

7. Fascinating! Most of the squirrels in my neighbor live in nests high up in

black walnut and sycamore trees. I wonder how they don't get blown away.

[SharonClark]

8. Here's how hibernating squirrels live for months without water

Interesting article [link:https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/here-s-how-hibernating-squirrels-live-months-without-water|

[irisblue]

9. Uncanny and a bit concerning resemblance to me

[Demovictory9]

11. Lol

[Wild blueberry]

10. Wow!

Thank you.

[Fla Dem]

12. That was fascinating, but almost felt like I was a Peeping Tom. Glad I watched to the end.

Got to see her kits delivered. Thank You.

[calimary]

20. And she looked exhausted afterwards.

I remember how that felt. And I didn’t have to birth mine alone.

Truly amazing. I’ve watched this several times. Utterly fascinating and marvelous.

[Probatim]

15. My son and I were hiking one spring afternoon and I was showing him how

to knock on trees with woodpecker holes to see if anyone was home. If they have nests they look out to see who's knocking at the door. It's quite comical to see them looking down at you and you're craning your neck to look up at them.

After a few unsuccessful attempts, he knocked on a fairly small and completely dead tree with a hole near the top - and maybe 12 feet over our heads.

Sure as sh*t, a flying squirrel pops his head out and floats over our heads. It lands about 30 feet away and scampers into another hole. His head swiveled around and the look on his face was - what in the f*ck is that?

He's a young adult now and we still laugh at that squirrel.

[question everything]

16. Beautiful!

Clearly a European squirrel with these long ears.

Wonder how all this activity was so minutely recorded.

[hibbing]

17. Sleeping squirrel

Fascinating, thanks for posting. They never ever stop moving so it was very interesting to see one sleeping!

Peace

[3catwoman3]

18. I was afraid this was going to be something about Rand Paul's hair.

This was ever so much better, and completely captivating.

I never see baby squirrels out and about. Do they try in the nest until they are “launched?”

[calimary]

21. The very thought ...

[TygrBright]

19. Mommy squirrel! With babies!! So neat! n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

22. Got kind of crowded when the kids got bigger.

[StarryNite]

23. That is sooo precious

[Susan Calvin]

24. That's cute.

It wasn't so cute when they broke into my attic and did the same thing.

[Vinca]

25. Great. Now I know what they look like in my attic during the winter. LOL.

[EndlessWire]

26. I enjoyed that. Thank you!

The nest seemed so clean. Why was there no apparent food in it?