Fair Oaks squirrels are friendly and always hungry!

We have red squirrels and gray squirrels in Fair Oaks, and they eat the pine cones in our trees (and sometimes make a mess on the patio), but they also love the mixed nuts we feed them.  We get great nuts for the squirrels from the Wild Bird and Garden Center.

One especially friendly red squirrel begs at our patio door, scratching and looking n the windows to get us to give her some nuts.  She will eat out of a cup we hold for her, but since I can't hold the cup and film her at the same time, I just put a few nuts on the brick ledge outside the patio door.

The cats long ago pretty much gave up trying to catch the squirrels, so the cats and squirrels mostly just watch each other with curiosity.

Hope you enjoy this little video of one of my favorite Fair Oaks squirrels (with a guest appearance by Charlie - one of our cats).

 

 

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16 Comments on Fair Oaks squirrels are friendly and always hungry!

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30
2010
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I can not believe you got that close to film the squirrel! So cute!
12:22am • #1
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Susan-We have some squirrels in the area too, but most are pretty skittish. I guess CA squirrels are just braver than the ones we have here. Nice video.
12:32am • #2
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Susan - That is a really adorable video.  I have a herd of squirrels in my yard, and they always have antics that entertain.  My cat could care less.  Everyone, the dog, the cat, the squirrels, and I, seem to co-exist peacefully:-)
1:38am • #3
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This little furball is really sweet, and certainly knows where the yummy food comes from.  I don't know how they can chew so fast!
1:45am • #4
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Sooooo many of our fellow residents find these critters to be a mess and undesirable. But, we feed them none the less. This area even has white ones and they really stand out! Hubby has a love/hate relationship with them. They constantly outwit his attempts to keep them out of the bird feeders but at the same time they come and take peanuts from out of his hand. Sue of Robin and Sue
2:00am • #5
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It appears that Mr. Squirrel was hardly intimidated by the presence of your kitty!
11:30am • #6
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Very funny.  We used to have a possum who came in through the cat door at night.  Our cat would just sit there and watch the possum eat his food and then saunter out.  Talk about the peaceable kingdom.

MB
10:32pm • #7
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Susan, well I'm sorry to tell you that I'm not a fan of squirrels.  They've caused too much damage in homes that I've owned.  Anyway the reason I stopped by to comment was to ask if you've ever seen black squirrels?  I used to see them in northern Illinois.  Robin and Sue commented about white one's...I've never seen one of those.
10:34pm • #8
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Michael - We have to close the cat door at night because the skunks come in at night to clean up the cat bowls, and although they have never sprayed in our house, I don't want to tempt fate.  They just walk in casually, walk right past us and into the kitchen.  I got tired of shooing them out, so we close the door at night now.

Nick - We normally have just red ones and gray ones, but we have seen one black squirrel a few times in our yard and one of the neighbors saw him recently too.
11:03pm • #9
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You would think that they had plenty to eat, judging from the mess on the patio from their eating pine nuts from pine cones and tossing the "petals" down from the trees after taking out the nuts.  But they still seem to want the nuts my husband and I give them too.
11:09pm • #10
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01
2010
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Nick said he hasn't heard of the white variety and here's a link, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/squirrels.html, about 5 different areas where they have been spotted. Most are considered albinos but our area white squirrels are not albinos and Brevard NC has a huge yearly celebration about the white squirrel. Oh Susan I love the video of the squirrels and your cat watching. Would love to have seen the skunks coming to visit!! Wow, sounds like it could have been very "perfumy" shooing them back out the door. Oh, what a video that would be. Sue of Robin and Sue
12:30am • #11
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Susan, someone should remind that sweet little squirrel that your kitty is a carnivorous preditor!  But I guess the squirrel thinds that where there is a cat, there is Cat Chow!
11:40am • #12
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Susan I love the video!  Our squirrels don't let you get within a mile-I can't believe you can get that close especially with the camera right up to the window.
4:00pm • #13
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My cat would have been going nuts. He tries to attack almost anything that moves near him.
10:30pm • #14
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Susan, I came back to read the comments and I went to the "Squirrel" webstie that Robin and Sue pointed out and it was hilarious.  With several towns claiming the white squirrels as there own with a variety of laws protecting them...there even seems to be some bad blood between towns as to which one had them first etc., etc.,...funny stuff.
11:37pm • #15
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02
2010
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The squirrels around here like to get up close and personal.  Looked like he would have come right in the house if you opened up the slider. 
5:02am • #16

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