I think we need a little warning sign saying \u2018Squirrels at play\u2019. I\u2019m starting to think one of them has found something to chew on in the garden that gets it high. I\u2019m nicknamed \u2018Wild Wilma\u2019 but I\u2019m positively tame in comparison. Mum would have videoed it but she didn\u2019t think you would get the full effect from the distance we were watching from. First it ran up the magnolia and used that to build up speed downhill and back up the cherry tree. After a somersault or two, it went to the blueberry \u2013 where, might I tell you, it stripped the flowers off the branches, so that\u2019s the blueberry crop reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the blueberry it was back to the magnolia. At one point in flipping over it seemed to get its foot stuck between two branches so was dangling upside down for a while as it extricated itself. Anyway, it kept doing circuits of that and the porch of the summerhouse. There were some loop-the-loops over the hanging baskets and repeat. One of the other squirrels was simply sitting on the bird feeder eating peanuts during the whole show as though what was going on was normal behaviour, but even in my book that was not normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s one of those weekends where there are no good options. I can choose between helping with some decorating or going to the tip. Frankly, I don\u2019t really want to do either. At least with decorating I\u2019m out and about, so I guess I\u2019ll go for that. If it\u2019s not too wet outside I think Mum is planning to do some of the jobs in the garden, so maybe it won\u2019t be so bad. I might just try to see if I can find what the squirrel has been eating. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wilma has been watching the squirrels at play and it really is not normal behaviour. She would like to try some of what they have been eating.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-23295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}