On Friday I had the privilege of killing on of our four tiny, family of small tree squirrels.Douglass's I think. I feed them all year long and put sun flower seeds mixed with oatmeal and lard out in another feeder too. A small price to pay, for what they give us. Three months later they start digging, this time to find the nuts they hid buried.
They do dig holes and plant nuts in the fall, only to go back and look for them later and does make a mess in our lawn
Three days ago I found a blow-gun dart, point end down, in the cover of our hot-tub. Yesterday I found one of my squirrels setting in the sun, his back toward me, like he was ashamed of what he did, with the dart, (a blow-gun
dart in through his right eye and out the other side of his skull.) One shot from my.177 rifle to his head and it was done, We took the little guy next next door and left him with the dart still in him.
The father was unhappy with his kids.