I haven't seen any squirrels for about two days and I don't know if they have been coming down early in the morning. Usually I can hear them banging the nut box lid but I haven't noticed that either.
Perhaps they are not happy with me clearing the garden as I do know that when I was out there all day Monday, one was spying on me waiting for me to come inside so he could have his tea. Then on Tuesday, one of the young ones spent the entire afternoon on the top of the fence sunbathing and watching the nut box. He was also keeping his eye on me when I was in the kitchen dealing with the washing.
Now usually when they come down to feed, they spend half the time eating and the other half burying peanuts in the garden and I would have thought that now I have cleared out some of the plants, they would have more space to bury their nuts.
I do know that they weren't very happy when the landlady had the garden at the side cleared because it gave them less cover when they came to feed. I also know that there are quite a lot of cats too so I'm wondering if that's got anything to do with their absence, but the cats round here are too slow and fat to catch the squirrels who shoot up the walls of the house quick as a flash when they see a cat and they sit on the roof swearing.
Hopefully they will be back tomorrow.
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