« Spirit of America Blog Challenge | Main | Yeah, Right »

December 12, 2004

Squirrels

Outside my window, I have several bird feeders and a nice Blue Spruce and my garden pond and bushes. The birds drop a lot of sunflower seeds on the ground, and our front yard squirrels and chipmunks hang out down there waiting for tasty tidbits.

There is a young grey squirrel there now, munching away. He is quite unusual because the last third of his tail is pure white. Almost looks like he could have dipped it in paint. He must be a mutant squirrel. I wonder if future generations of our front yard squirrels will have white on their tails like that?

When I was growing up, we had a family of albino squirrels who lived in our back yard. They were unusual enough that someone from Washington University came out to photograph them for the biology department. We had white squirrels for many years, and for all I know, their descendants might still live in the trees behind that house in Creve Coeur.

A new commenter, Edrie, has found a squirrel name generator on Cheeky Squirrel's Blog.

I am now known by the squirrels as Furry Furrycheeks. John is Twitchy Von Bushy.

Tee hee.

Posted by Beth at December 12, 2004 08:47 AM