Hey Zac, come on and get your camera ready, as I don't have all day you know :)
I made a deal with the lady, she allows me to make a short video and I give her a mix of nuts.
She was hesitant during her first visits over the past months, but now she has gotten used to us and she knows that we will not touch or hurt her. It was a long process to befriend her, and you can see that she recently had babies. Now our hope is that when the babies are strong enough to walk, that she will bring them with to come and feed. At the moment she shares her planting of the nuts with also feeding the babies, wherever they are hidden, and I know the differences between her planting and the feeding.
How do you think that I know the differences, as I have not seen the babies?
Okay, ready or not, here I come! She shouted.
We also have pair of laughing doves that comes to eat here, and although the squirrel does not attack them, she simply runs over them if they don't give way.
I was a bit cramped for space here, as I took the photo out of the window and the burglar bars were in the way.
What are you looking at Zac, have you never seen a squirrel with nuts?
Phew! The nuts are thirsty job and so I will take a bite of the soft water-laden avocado.
She said; Thank you everybody for watching my video and I wish you all a happy day!
I will now just continue to plant my nuts in the gardens of the neighbors. Bye for now!
At our old house where we used to stay, the neighbors came to complain to us about all of the peanut bushes that were growing in their gardens. We had a whole family of squirrels there that lived in the trees of our big garden and of course they got nuts from my wife every day. Then we moved to this house with two tiny gardens, one at the front and another at the back of the house. We had to adapt, as there was no life in the gardens.
Until this madam squirrel came along, at first tentatively, but lately every day.
In the small back garden, we planted many succulents, and my wife now feeds the Cape Dwarf Geckos in the back garden with small bugs and flies. Problem is that the back garden is also the home of some big rain spiders and they eat geckos. Fortunately, there are many geckos around and also many gecko babies. So, we leave it as it is, as we don't want to disturb nature's feeding cycle and we keep the gardens organic.
We live two houses away from the river and the huge trees on the riverbanks are the home of many birds and other river animals like a mongoose that I have seen fleetingly a few times.
We are happy at this stage and that's all that counts.
I hope that you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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