I have spent the last half an hour or so watching the grey squirrel that found our garden back in the spring. Well, this morning he or she is back and has been very busy burying goodies for when he or she gets the munchies in the depths of winter. First of all it had a good old feed on the sunflower seeds in the bird feeder and then it went into action on our old plum tree. There are dead shrivelled remains of plums all over the tree and the squirrel was easily pulling them off of the ends of some very tiny branches. Then he or she took the stone and moved to somewhere more appropriate for the weight of a squirrel and chewed off the plum stone to leave just the kernel. It was then just a matter of burying the kernel in the garden, covering it up and finally doing lots of patting to cover it up - this last move appeared to be quite important going by the patting that went on each time!
Remove outside of plum stone,
bury kernel,
pat well down,
and start all over again and again and again.....
All we have to hope is that his or her memory is better than mine and that he or she comes back for the goods, otherwise it looks like we'll have a mass of plum trees growing, .... plums anyone?
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