Caught Him in the Act

Image source: Sunflowers-SerifUK, Collage-Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
June 12, 2016 11:21am CST
The other day I put up a post about the bad stuff that squirrels can do to an otherwise fine field full of delightful sunflowers. I caught the ringleader squirrel with my Pixabay camera as he tried to chomp on one of the giant sunflower seeds. Greedy little bugger. Well, perhaps that seed will keep him busy for several weeks so as to give the rest of the sunflowers time to do their thing out there in that field. What do you think the chances of that might be? * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Gus Kilthau - Seed using Gimphoto program, collage using CopyScape; Squirrel - Pixabay dot com; Sunflowers Serif-UK DVD-PagePlus software
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382258)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 17
I would love to have squirrels around here - but then, maybe not. I always thought I'd like snow too!
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Feb 17
@JudyEv - Ms Judy - The chances are that you would like to have some squirrels around, but you would not like snow very much after the first time snow falls on your place. Until the snow melts, it is rather useless stuff. -Gus-
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
22 Feb 17
@JudyEv - Ms Judy - When I was a teenager we had a snowstorm that dumped more than 4 feet of snow on the ground over a time of 24 hours of snowing. A buddy and I mad a "fortune" shoveling snow from driveways and sidewalks. -Gus-
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382258)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 17
@Ceerios I've gone right off snow after hearing all about it on myLot.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
12 Jun 16
As close to zero as makes no difference, I suspect!
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Jun 16
@pgntwo - Friend PGN - and... if you add together two zeroes you get somewhat less than one googol. I always knew that the Irish were all smarties.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
12 Jun 16
@Ceerios Reminds me: Patient: "Doctor, doctor!" Doctor: "Yes, how can I help you?" Patient: "This cream makes my arm smart!" Doctor: "Well, why don't you rub some on your head then?" Haha?
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Jun 16
@pgntwo -Friend PGN - And here's one for you (from my "101 Dumb Poems" -- The psychiatrist "Before I peer into your mind, I'd like to take a look to see if you can make some sense with your pocketbook."
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angel_smiles
@Lolaze (5092)
• St. Louis, Missouri
12 Jun 16
Squirrels are such little buggers! They get into everything and stir up such trouble. We have a family of them around here who delight in driving my dogs insane.
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
13 Jun 16
@Lolaze - Ms Lola - That squirrel family you mentioned is very likely only trying to return the insanity to anyone or anything that gave it to them. Squirrel brains are tiny, but they are always possessed of actively firing neuron stuff.
Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
12 Jun 16
The chances are nil. Nice image again.
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Jun 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - Good evening (your clock...) - A squirrel has never been known to give up trying to do it to other beasts or to flora, particularly to the edible flora - and that definitely includes the seeds of sunflowers.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
The ground squirrels have already eaten all of the sunflower plants at our garden where I work. I am convinced that squirrels are slowly taking over the world, and that even giant sunflowers are defenseless against them.
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Jun 16
@TheHorse - Horse - Squirrels have owned the world since the dinosaurs all perished. They understand this. Just get out of their way.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Jun 16
@Ceerios Are they in bed with the cats of the world?
minisam
@miniam (9151)
• Bern, Switzerland
12 Jun 16
Not bad at all, i have never seen any squirrels here,wonder if we have them.
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Jun 16
@miniam - (minisam) - There is one rogue squirrel hanging out around the Lausanne area on or around the middle hill according to Interpol.following their investigation within the Vaud canton.
Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
13 Jun 16
@miniam - minisam - One can always try to be good, but it is much easier to be not good (so I have determined).
minisam
@miniam (9151)
• Bern, Switzerland
12 Jun 16
@Ceerios You are good lol
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