*Going Nuts*

We've been having some furry visitors!

The squirrels figured out that the peanuts were coming from "inside" the house (after getting frustrated because the bluejays keep stealing them all from the potful I usually keep outside for them), and therefore decided to come up to the sliding door & "request" their peanuts from us! One even tried to come inside, but uh, no, sorry there little guy, that is not going to happen... so we went out onto the porch for them instead (can you say, run-on sentence?). It is pretty comical though because there have been days where they have come to the glass door and literally "tapped" on it to get our attention!

I don't have photos of the blue-jays, but they have been hilarious to observe lately, too. They come along, get a peanut and then hop or fly to various nearby locations and "hide" them. Then, they hurry back to get more & keep repeating this over & over. One clever blue-jay then figured out that if he just waited & watched where the others were hiding theirs, he could go steal them and have that many more to himself! One would bury a peanut in the barkdust then fly back to get another. Meanwhile this one would swoop down, dig up the hidden treasure and fly off to rehide it for himself. Another, started hiding peanuts by carefully placing them in the big tree in the front yard... How they didn't fall out, I don't know, but at any rate it still didn't work out because both the squirrels and the crows soon discoverd them! It was an incredibly funny frenzy!