Last autumn, our granddaughter Eva, who was staying with us for several months, started complaining about the noise in the attic above her bedroom. At first, I dismissed it as the usual small animal noises on the roof or even in the attic. My bedroom was next to hers and I wasn’t hearing anything out […]
Category: gray squirrels
Black Squirrels
“Mom, there’s a black squirrel in the flat area.” It was 5:30 p.m. on a balmy day in early March and my son Dave and I were fixing dinner in the kitchen. I rushed to the window, grabbed my binoculars, and called my husband Bruce to come and see the unusual eastern gray squirrel. In […]
April Journal Highlights (2)
Close encounters of the avian kind April 18. The sun warmed the Far Field, and as I walked Pennyroyal Trail, a towhee sang, a flicker called, and a ruby-crowned kinglet sang. I stopped to “pish,” hoping to entice the kinglet into view, and I did. He flew on to a tree branch, erected his ruby-crown, […]
Nature’s Ultimate Bankers
It’s late January as I crunch over frosty, fallen leaves on my way to Coyote Bench. Almost immediately I hear the high-pitched whine of a female gray squirrel in a mating chase. Four male squirrels are after her, but one male fends off the others. Once the female turns and faces him at the end […]
Marcia Bonta 