We live in a tiny house in the forest and have been feeding ~50 chippies for 4 years. The newest generations have no fear of humans. Thankfully they don’t wander far and we are quite a few KM from town.
This one is apple. APple loves peanuts, and I love apple.
I have a small group of these guys (or maybe it’s just one I can’t tell), that are currently as I type, and for the last three days, up in the pines right next to my house.
They are hurling the green pine cones out of the tree.
Every morning, bang pinecone hitting the roof, ping pine cone hitting the metal gas tanks. Incessant hurling of pinecones from a 40ft tree right on to the house. They’ve been working hard for a few hours every morning for this. I hear them squeek and laugh up there. There’s a pile of pinecones at the bottom of the tree that would fill at least a few wheelbarrows.
I love them, but if you tried to walk under the pines right now, I’d grab a helmet.
This is probably a squirrel. They knock them to the ground and then come back for them later to eat them. Although they do sometimes try to hit people with them too :p
CHIPMUNK THREAD!
DUMP DUMP DUMP
We live in a tiny house in the forest and have been feeding ~50 chippies for 4 years. The newest generations have no fear of humans. Thankfully they don’t wander far and we are quite a few KM from town.
This one is apple. APple loves peanuts, and I love apple.
Bonus video:
I have a small group of these guys (or maybe it’s just one I can’t tell), that are currently as I type, and for the last three days, up in the pines right next to my house.
They are hurling the green pine cones out of the tree.
Every morning, bang pinecone hitting the roof, ping pine cone hitting the metal gas tanks. Incessant hurling of pinecones from a 40ft tree right on to the house. They’ve been working hard for a few hours every morning for this. I hear them squeek and laugh up there. There’s a pile of pinecones at the bottom of the tree that would fill at least a few wheelbarrows.
I love them, but if you tried to walk under the pines right now, I’d grab a helmet.
This is probably a squirrel. They knock them to the ground and then come back for them later to eat them. Although they do sometimes try to hit people with them too :p
This is what the buffet looks like afterwards.
And the most likely culprit below that.
My son says he keeps seeing chipmunks jumping from our roof. But it could be squirrels too. I can’t see them they are so high in the tree!
Yes, the entire ground is covered in that oine cone litter in the photo. Little buggers!
Good stuff! Thanks.