The Rain Just Won't Stop. There's somthing else really strange going on also...!

Ok so watched to see what the squirrels did last night. They started a little after dark and stayed at it till well after midnight. I put out a 20 pound bag of beets. About 100 peices. They didn't quit till they moved them all. They don't really hide them that well. Moved them all to the wood pile and just throw a few little spigets of cedar bows on them. If there had been more they would have kept at it.

I have never seen behavior like this. Squirrels never run around at night. Never. Day time only.

In 12 years they have never raided my vegtable boxes. There is lots of cones and seeds for them around here. The trees are loaded. Thats their prefered food.

Scratching my head on this behavior. Do they know somthing we don't. They have mountains of food stored for the winter and still going for it.

Very Strange. Its got me worried because of the amounts they are gathering. Everybody will say that when the squirrels gather extra food and keep it close to their beds that were going to have a bad winter with lots of snow.

I'm going to follow suit. I just ordered extra firewood and I'm going to get extra root vegtables for my storage boxes this year. Actually I'm going to do it today. Local farmer whom sells the BIG BAGS.

I gotta say I think we are way in for it this winter. I just have a bad feeling and the squirrels just have reinforced what I feel. Extra hay and feed for the livestock also. I am going to buy a snowblower also to add in the mix just in case for around my buldings where the tractor can't go.

Hey OP, maybe you should document this with a camera?. I'd watch your proof and suspicions.

This year we did not get a acorn crop......Lots of hickory nut which the squirrels love, but no acorns. This happens every few years. So the Blue Jays which normally store acorns for winter are out of luck. So their have been a lot more of them at the feeder taking nuts to store. I'm going into debt buying peanuts. lol

I did. Trail infared trail camera and watched it this morning. Problem. Slow Dialup. No cell service where I live and no Cable just Satelite. I can't watch video's on the internet so can't load them either. Too bad cause it was pretty funny watching them drag around a beet that was as big as themselves. Very determend little critters. It was really funny to watch. They kept dropping them trying for the top of the wood pile. They roll them and drag them and try and get a good grip on them. Funny as hell.

They are such pigs. My sister was complaining about the same thing. She has squirrels and now Jays and Magpies coming. She's buying three big bags a week. You could go into debt feeding them and then once you start you can't stop. GUILT.

I did. Trail infared trail camera and watched it this morning. Problem. Slow Dialup. No cell service where I live and no Cable just Satelite. I can't watch video's on the internet so can't load them either. Too bad cause it was pretty funny watching them drag around a beet that was as big as themselves. Very determend little critters. It was really funny to watch. They kept dropping them trying for the top of the wood pile. They roll them and drag them and try and get a good grip on them. Funny as hell.

I feel guilty to......I missed feeding one day. Ran out of nuts. After the third time of going outside and them flying into the nearest trees and just staring at me.....I felt so bad I got in my car and drove to the store. Just for peanuts. They have me trained well. lol

You've got the best entertainment there. Far better than anything you can see on TV... we used to live in the bush and I sure miss the bird feeder (a 4 X 8 foot sheet of plywood) that the birds and the squirls frequented. We bought 2,000 lbs of oil sunflower seeds every winter to feed them. How I loved that feeder.. I could sit by the hour and be entertained.

Why did you ever leave the Bush.....? 2000lbs WOW. They are little pigs aren't they. They hide the stuff all over the place. I wonder if they remember them all. LOL

Why did we leave the bush? We needed to earn a living.. the work just died up there.. and... I can't say I miss the mosquitoes, ticks and ground wasps... bugs comming out of the ying yang in the bush.
The variety of birds we got was absolutely wonderful. The evening and pine grossbeaks were forward enough to peck at our windows when the feeder needed refilling.. it was great. It was comical to watch the birds gang up on the squirls to get them off the feeder.. we had a lot of laughs watching the activities on that feeder.

its like the situations where it was hotter at night than day during this summer...

it's called ambient heat.
the asphalt etc. release heat during the night.

is this your first time ever paying attention to natural cycles? stfu.

it's called ambient heat.
the asphalt etc. release heat during the night.

is this your first time ever paying attention to natural cycles? stfu.

op you are one of the most intelligent people on this forum, LOL!!!! seriously!!!!

watch the animals, good advice. let me ask you something.

i too have been watching the clouds, and though there is big storm off canada/alaska, i am in portland oregon and we should be having winds moving differently in light of the existence of this storm. i too am noticing lower layer moving north, and upper layer (close above) moving east. definitely thought that was weird. been doing for weeks now.

have you also noticed geese flying north, as opposed to south, this year? autumn equinox is about when i heard the first geese, around midnight. till about 4 AM they headed north, all night, and for the next few weeks...never heard them during the day, just at night. always going north. wtf.

this morning i did see a small gaggle heading north in the morning, but they could also be local geese.

anyway, the moment i first heard them i knew the weather would change (i also heard a frog pipe up for the first time ever, when the first geese went over, so i knew something was up) it did within ten minutes...from hot summer to freezing ass cold for weeks. we now have fairly warm rain but cold at night.

Ok so watched to see what the squirrels did last night. They started a little after dark and stayed at it till well after midnight. I put out a 20 pound bag of beets. About 100 peices. They didn't quit till they moved them all. They don't really hide them that well. Moved them all to the wood pile and just throw a few little spigets of cedar bows on them. If there had been more they would have kept at it.

I have never seen behavior like this. Squirrels never run around at night. Never. Day time only.

In 12 years they have never raided my vegtable boxes. There is lots of cones and seeds for them around here. The trees are loaded. Thats their prefered food.

Scratching my head on this behavior. Do they know somthing we don't. They have mountains of food stored for the winter and still going for it.

Very Strange. Its got me worried because of the amounts they are gathering. Everybody will say that when the squirrels gather extra food and keep it close to their beds that were going to have a bad winter with lots of snow.

I'm going to follow suit. I just ordered extra firewood and I'm going to get extra root vegtables for my storage boxes this year. Actually I'm going to do it today. Local farmer whom sells the BIG BAGS.

I gotta say I think we are way in for it this winter. I just have a bad feeling and the squirrels just have reinforced what I feel. Extra hay and feed for the livestock also. I am going to buy a snowblower also to add in the mix just in case for around my buldings where the tractor can't go.