I saw a dead one a week ago smack in the middle of my lane on a local road 1/2mi. from my house, and it wasn't even spring yet!
I 'm ready for them but I don't see any signs of live G-hogs around the holes on my property. I 'm afraid I was right last year. They all fell prey to the 350. I hope some new ones decide to migrate and take over the old burrows, we 'll see in late summer when some of them might get chased away by their parents.
On a another good note, my property is full of squirrels again! I saw 4 of them together and it looks like they are new comers moving in. I say this because they were not afraid of me at all. I walked outside to get the mail and all 4 of them continued about their business not more than 10yds away, in the middle of the lawn, not even close to the safety of a tree. The nearest tree was about 20yds out! Previously the ones that had watched me bag one of their friends knew well to keep away from me or go to the opposite side of the tree as soon as I opened a window or walked outside. These guys are running around like they own the place and like I 'm not even there.
BTW, later one of them came near the living room window and my son pointed him out because we were sitting there there looking at and enjoying the plethora of robins, mocking birds and Chicadees on our front lawn (no bird feeder or anything). The grey was no more than 10ft away. We opened the window and threw out some shelled peanuts. He ran over right away, smelled them, and left them alone! WTH? I thought they liked peanuts. Is it maybe because they were lightly salted? We usually get the 5lb bag of Planters lightly salted peanuts from Costco. Maybe salt harms them or turns them off.. Any ideas why they walked away from peanuts?
