[va-richmond-general] Re: Hummingsquirrel

Apparently this is not as rare as I thought. I found this on the net:

 

http://sr-meanderings.blogspot.com/2008/09/hummingsquirrel.html

 

Jim Blowers

 

 

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From: juliekazz@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:juliekazz@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, 2009 May 30 21:34
To: jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [va-richmond-general] Hummingsquirrel

 

Yup-squirrels will eat or drink just about anything. I have had many a
hummingbird feeder destroyed by squirrels. I don't know what the solution
is.

JulieK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Blowers" <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 7:24:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Hummingsquirrel

We had something unusual happen today. A squirrel tried to drink the nectar
in our hummingbird feeder.  The feeder was an upside-down bottle with 4 red
florets with yellow bee guards on it, hanging from an ant trap hanging from
a metal hook on a post. The squirrel got down onto the feeder and started
gurgling it up. I didn't know that squirrels liked hummingbird nectar. I
thought they were more interested in corn, bird seed, and suet. Squirrels
were eating the suet, so we replaced it with hot pepper suet. I wonder if it
got a bite of that hot pepper suet and was trying to cool its mouth down
immediately. I did not have a camera handy.

 

Jim Blowers

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