Recycling: chickadee makes use of dead squirrel
Even in the rotten convolutions of death we may make nice soft lining for another’s nest eggs.
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Re: Recyling: chickadee makes use of dead squirrel
Uhhh, why is the squirrel corpse sitting on a railing?
By Eric on 01 July 2006, 08:12 PDT · [reply]
Re^2: Recyling: chickadee makes use of dead squirrel
I could tell you. But then I’d have to … uh … tell you?
Found him in the yard. Set him up for viewing. A sort of Nutunkamen exhibit. He fell down the next day and since I couldn’t see him in the long grass, I stepped on him. Interesting sound. Glad I got to try it without hurting anyone. Oh, and while wearing shoes. I could imagine the doctor’s visit that would be: “Well, how did you get a footful of bone splinters?”
I keep a running tally of dead squirrels in the neighborhood. Up to 6 this spring/summer.
Update: I remember now. I didn’t find him in the yard. I was cleaning the gutters and there was a terrible smell coming from the Monkey Puzzle tree that overhangs the roof. I found a squirrel nest. I poked it with a broom to break it up, figuring it was just squirrel poo and such, and that fella fell out. He was probably mummifying up there for a couple years.
By Ashley on 01 July 2006, 12:19 PDT · [reply]