While this squirrel convention has yet to have a specific date, and please understand it is difficult to get a group of chattering squirrels to agree to anything, it sometimes seems like this event is ongoing year-round in almost every Bellingham neighborhood. As a 50+ year resident, I really do not know just how this squirrel population explosion came about. It has been recent though. In the early 1990's I spent a lot of time in British Columbia visiting friends. And there they had an abundance of gray and black squirrels. I always wondered why there were so few squirrels in Bellingham, as the community was so similar to those I was visiting in BC. I have lived in the Cornwall Park neighborhood for more than 30 years and, for most of my life, about the only time I saw a squirrel was in the park, this despite my neighborhood having great foliage and abundant trees. Suddenly, they moved in. I am estimating here, but I would say it was about 2000 or 2001 when the squirrels started showing up in my neighborhood. Now, at any given time, there might be 10 or more cavorting about ( I admit that I feed them). They are climbing trees, harassing the cat, walking across power lines above the road as if the lines are a freeway. A week back one committed suicide on the lines and knocked the power out in part of the town. Whether you like them, and enjoy their antics, or look upon them as "rats with tails", they are now a fixture in about every Bellingham neighborhood. I have seen them on the north-side, the south-side, the east-side, the west-side, at city hall, at the library, down by the creek and on Railroad Avenue -- where no squirrel should ever be. In Bellingham, we have squirrels, no doubt about that. Now all I need, from the AR community, is a collection of your favorite squirrel recipes.
Squirrel buffet, compliments of King of the House
Rat with tail, or beautiful and interesting creature? You decide!
Thanks for looking.
Steven L. Smith
www.kingofthehouse.com
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