Red squirrel pantry

[bb07]

In all the years I've been roaming the bush,this is the first time I've seen a squirrel use this for food storage:
http://i744.photobucket.com/albums/xx90/camokodiak/late october outing/IMG_0432.jpg
This birch bark was completely hollow except for about a foot off the ground.That would be all that was holding it up.The rest was full of spruce cones.
The part you're looking at stands about three feet high.
Kind of unique I thought.

 

[Geoff Dann]

In all the years I've been roaming the bush,this is the first time I've seen a squirrel use this for food storage:
http://i744.photobucket.com/albums/xx90/camokodiak/late october outing/IMG_0432.jpg
This birch bark was completely hollow except for about a foot off the ground.That would be all that was holding it up.The rest was full of acorns.
The part you're looking at stands about three feet high.
Kind of unique I thought.

If those are acorns, I'm a banana...

Acorns grow on OAK trees.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Really cool find there bb07, did you get the chance to watch the storeman in action, I think those are spruce cones, but i may very well be wrong,

 

[bb07]

If those are acorns, I'm a banana...

Acorns grow on OAK trees.

You are exactly right,they are spruce cones.A lot of people here call spruce & pine cones 'acorns' in the same way that they call all makes of snowmobiles 'skidoos'.An incorrect but generic term.Why, I do not know,but anyway I should have used the correct name.Sometimes they're also referred to as 'nuts',which of course they aren't either.Real acorns are something I've never seen,nor have I ever seen an oak tree.
Southey,no I didn't get to see that particular worker,but there were lots chattering all about.

 

[British Red]

Get out of my pantry!

 

[JonathanD]

What a great find. I'd like to find British Reds pantry, must be stocked full of fine food and beverages.

 

[British Red]

30 bottles of Rioja bubbling as we speak Jon

 

[JonathanD]

30 bottles of Rioja bubbling as we speak Jon

I knew it. Wonder how long it would take me to tunnel from my cellar to Reds house.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Real acorns are something I've never seen,nor have I ever seen an oak tree.

That seems really weird from my perspective. Where I come from I'd say if people only know how to identify one type of tree, it is probably oak. You must live a long way north...

 

[JonathanD]

That seems really weird from my perspective. Where I come from I'd say if people only know how to identify one type of tree, it is probably oak. You must live a long way north...

Try Canada.

 

[Retired Member southey]

by JonathanD
I knew it. Wonder how long it would take me to tunnel from my cellar to Reds house,



roughly 535931 days i rekon if your able to dig at an average speed of one foot per night, Need a hand?

 

[Willderness]

Try Canada.

If this was facebook I would Like that comment!
Great find bb07. Hopefully the squirrel won't forget about that stash!

 

[East Coaster]

Hey, that's really cool, I've been involved with a Red Squirrel project in scotland that is collating the most comprehensive information to date on the subject .
I've been surveying and monitoring red squirrel for the past year or so and haven't come across anything like that,,,,,,coool!

 

[British Red]

Its a different species of squirrel to the European (aka British) Red in Canada though