Another post about squirrels, I know. I'm sorry to those who aren't fired up about them. I have been trying to mix it up a little but I have so much footage of them... bear with me.
One day I heard an insistent, ongoing noise of some kind. I located the direction it was coming from and realized it was a squirrel in a tree, who was NOT happy about a cat that was coming his way. The cat, in usual feline form, was so nonchalant, he looked like he didn't even hear the squirrel, let alone was scared off by it. But whether or not the cat revealed any emotion, it indeed walked on by. At which point, the squirrel directed it's displeasure at ME for filming her too.
Probably much to her continued dismay I got a different angle and continued filming, for my own education. It seems like an eternity to re-watch it but it passed pretty quickly in real time. I quit as quickly as I could when I saw she was not going to calm down.
But I'd never seen one doing this before... Never hear squirrels making much noise, because I haven't lived outside a city apartment building since I was 18. And for all the work I've done with them in the last few years, it hasn't been a time that I've heard them talking to each other or expressing anger. I've seen a little chasing but no vocalizing. In rehabbing I occasionally hear the baby cry for attention or call for mom, and when we introduce juveniles who are new to each other, about 10% of the time you hear a moment's spat until they decide to get along. Watch where this sound comes from in the body, and how the effort to make this sound propelled the body forward, like a little leap. In the first video the tail was twitching, in this one it's not.
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Merry Xmas Eve, Your Friend Rob Toscano
My father and I always watched the squirrels mate and chatter in early spring in CT, He would get quite a kick out of it. We lived on an acre and quarter bordered by a 40 acre Monastery. We've had a family of chipmunks that have lived in the stone wall of our Stone Patio for over 40 years, Wild Turkey seem to have made an extraordinary comeback to several not before seen locations in and around the neighborhood. Squirrels have always dominated, the rabbit tracks in the snow reminded you they were still there, when you so dearly wanted to see more rabbit in the spring and summer.
Squirrel sounds, yes I definitely recall the chatter.
This happens a lot in our backyard. Especially on warmer days when our cats sit in the grass, the squirrels scold them so much! It's great fun to watch. I've not had my video camera handy, but this is really funny.
I'd sent you an email on your email account, not sure you saw it. Happy new year!
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