Our Little Red Squirrels Have Been BUSY!


We live out in the boonies with lots of pine trees and a number of squirrels. We also have a wood burning woodstove and keep a reserve of cut hardwood for winter heating.

All summer long these little rascals are busy gathering and storing their cache of pinecones for the long winter. They also have poor memories and tend to over do it.

Recently we uncovered our outside wood to bring inside our garage, which we do every year about this time. There's always a stash and their nests there, but this year they out-did themselves, and the following pictures show what we found.


When we uncovered our woodpile, here is what we saw when we began to take off the tarp.




Those little rascals had buried pinecones into every little nook and cranny they could find!




The whole woodpile was packed with pinecones




And here is one of the little rascals who did this ... with the evidence in his hot little paws!