Where are the squirrels?

Ecestu · Sep 6, 2021

I was excited to start my hunting season by nabbing a few squirrels today at Myrtle Grove. Granted, I did get out there a little later than I was hoping, but it was still morning and the weather was nice. I didn't see a single squirrel. I did run into a couple of dudes that said they'd been out there since sunrise and hadn't seen anything, either. I don't think I've ever been out there and have never seen at least one squirrel in the treetop.

Did the Charles County squirrels all die of covid? Lol. Jk. But still it was eery.

Overwatcher · Sep 6, 2021

They must have looked at their calendars.

Harrys · Sep 6, 2021

Typically when there a lot of squirrels in an area and they have young the young when older will not stay in the area. The older squirrels live about 6 years so a couple hunting seasons they get scarce. The squirrels that left their young will leave and move to a different area and the cycle keeps repeating. It is a pattern mother nature devised to plant new trees as squirrels berry their nuts. This year may be a dry year in some areas and a boom in others.

Inigoes · Sep 6, 2021

Wait till Friday and pretend that you are deer hunting. The squirrels will swarm you!

joppaj · Sep 6, 2021

I watched one spend about an hour burying black walnuts in my backyard today. Apparently he didn't get the holiday off.

Mdeng · Sep 6, 2021

15 of the little fuzzy tailed rats under my deer feeder today right up til dark.

MaxVO2 · Sep 6, 2021

joppaj said:
I watched one spend about an hour burying black walnuts in my backyard today. Apparently he didn't get the holiday off.

*****A fiscally conservative squirrel! Probably saving for a rainy or snowy day so it doesn't go hungry in the Winter. Very very smart. Mebbe even.....:

Czechnologist · Sep 6, 2021

Seems to be plenty around my neck of Frederick County. Nearly ran-over two of them on Ballenger Creek yesterday.

johnkn · Sep 6, 2021

They all died of lead poisoning at my home in Laplata last winter when they chewed into the wiring 2x on my Raptor truck and cost me $1200 in repairs.

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Jimbob2.0 · Sep 6, 2021

Somewhat random but in googling some squirrel population information I came up with this

"A 'crazy phenomenon': Wildlife experts untangle six squirrels tied at the tail"

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article211264929.html#storylink=cpy

Ecestu · Sep 6, 2021

Harrys said:
Typically when there a lot of squirrels in an area and they have young the young when older will not stay in the area. The older squirrels live about 6 years so a couple hunting seasons they get scarce. The squirrels that left their young will leave and move to a different area and the cycle keeps repeating. It is a pattern mother nature devised to plant new trees as squirrels berry their nuts. This year may be a dry year in some areas and a boom in others.

Huh. Thanks for the synopsis.

willtill · Sep 7, 2021

johnkn said:
They all died of lead poisoning at my home in Laplata last winter when they chewed into the wiring 2x on my Raptor truck and cost me $1200 in repairs.

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Been there, done that. :sad20:

E.Shell · Sep 7, 2021

Squirrels follow food sources. They will vacate an area to go up to several miles to fruiting trees. White oaks draw them, as do walnuts & hickories. My uncle in Alabama had a grove of pecan trees and for 11 months of the year, there wasn't a squirrel on the farm.

fscwi · Sep 7, 2021

Maybe its another mass migration year.

When was the last migration? One occurred in 1968 in most of the eastern U.S. The last I can find for the Mid-South was in the fall of 1998. Many drowned squirrels were reported on the shores of Bull Shoals Lake, Ark. The incidence of road kills was several times higher than normal.

https://www.farmprogress.com/massive-squirrel-migrations-recorded-north-america

Threeband · Sep 7, 2021

There's a dead one in the street near my house.

babalou · Sep 7, 2021

ha

Harrys said:
Typically when there a lot of squirrels in an area and they have young the young when older will not stay in the area. The older squirrels live about 6 years so a couple hunting seasons they get scarce. The squirrels that left their young will leave and move to a different area and the cycle keeps repeating. It is a pattern mother nature devised to plant new trees as squirrels berry their nuts. This year may be a dry year in some areas and a boom in others.

rotation of crops

SkiPatrolDude · Sep 7, 2021

I grew up with squirrels galore in Silver Spring MD, black ones too, in fact. Living in Timonium now, I see more bunnies than squirrels. I almost never saw rabbits in Silver Spring.

Melnic · Sep 7, 2021

They are all gathering around my Deer feeder.

MaxVO2 · Sep 7, 2021

Threeband said:
There's a dead one in the street near my house.

****It might just be playing possum!

Doctor_M · Sep 8, 2021

Inigoes said:
Wait till Friday and pretend that you are deer hunting. The squirrels will swarm you!

LOL... so much truth here.

Where are the squirrels?

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