She finally arrived to discover and explore her new world.
Always so good to watch the antics of the new little ones.
The amazing thing is that they operate almost entirely on instinct, and they also have preferences. For instance, one would eat avocado, and another one won't touch it. This little cutie eats everything, and she is lightning fast, as every now and then, the mother appears to chase her and her bigger sister away from the food, else they will eat it all and the mother would have nothing to eat.
Come and meet her.
She would search and select an acorn from the heap that my wife puts in the garden for them. And then she would scurry off with the nut to go and bury it in someone's garden:)
Hopefully soon we will grow a new oak tree forest here, planted by the squirrels, as they often forget where they planted the nuts.
Here below you can see that she planted a nut in our new aloe pot plant.
Just look how small she is!
And finally, the mom arrived to restore some order.
Another thing that I noticed is that squirrels have a method to test fruit for its ripeness. We have two front fences that are covered by granadilla bushes, and the squirrels know how to test a granadilla before they will eat it. I don't think that can go on colors, as when a granadilla turns purple, then we judge it to be ripe. The squirrels rather wait for the sun to totally shrink a granadilla, and then they test it by biting a small hole in the skin of the granadilla. If it's not sweet, they simply drop it, and look for another one to eat.
You can see below how they enjoy a granadilla.
So, I hope that everyone will have a great weekend and that you enjoyed my story about the squirrels in our garden.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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