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Post by Pat on Aug 26, 2013 12:54:55 GMT -5
What's this? Annabelle meets baby squirrel rescued when red tail hawk dropped it.  IMG_1494 by Pat6489, on Flickr |
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Post by deb193redux on Aug 26, 2013 13:00:10 GMT -5
is the squirrel hand feeding?
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Post by jamesp on Aug 26, 2013 13:00:54 GMT -5
Meets or eats Pat?
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Post by Pat on Aug 26, 2013 13:10:34 GMT -5
This is how the baby squirrel eats. A Q-Tip is dipped into a mixture of warm milk and necessary goodies and hand fed. Baby grabs onto Q-Tip and sucks off the goods.  IMG_1506 by Pat6489, on Flickr Below is a view of the entire baby. Annabelle never once tried to take a bite. Just curious. |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 26, 2013 13:20:52 GMT -5
Is this an ongoing process Pat? You may end up with a very special friend.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 13:45:03 GMT -5
Pat, try taking some dry dogfood and soak it in warm water until you have soft wet pellets. A squirrel that age will eat it well and quickly become a great pet. You have to handle it a lot along the way. You will have plenty of time to do that since the feeding will be so much easier. Is it striped? Looks like a chipmunk to me.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 26, 2013 14:14:45 GMT -5
I think it is a gray squirrel well, maybe they are not gray in California. In Canada they are grey, brown, red. There was a strain of white ones years ago here at my house. About 100 miles south is the giant fox squirrel. Enemy to the pecan growers. The body is up to 27 inches and tail 13 inches. A big squirrel and various colors. The fox squirrel  |
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Post by Pat on Aug 26, 2013 16:24:08 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 26, 2013 16:44:14 GMT -5
Golden-mantled ground squirrel maybe? I'm surprised it suffered no ill effects when in the talons of a hawk!
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Post by Pat on Aug 26, 2013 16:53:58 GMT -5
jean, it's face was bloody when she found it on the concrete sidewalk, and so young there was very little fur. Daughter found it and brought it over last night for us to admire. She doesn't know how this story will end, since she also has a cat. She takes in homeless baby birds, nurses them until they can eat on their own and fly, then lets them lose. We'll see.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 26, 2013 17:26:46 GMT -5
That's cool, Pat. Your daughter has a soft heart. (Oops, I'm not @ jean, but rockpickerforever. That's okay, I saw your post anyway.) I'll bet Mel, Mr-familiar-with-every-commiefornia-plant-pest would know what the little critter is. Oh Sabre52, what does Pat have here? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 17:51:46 GMT -5
interesting. Could be Grey or Fox Squirrel. Eastern Fox Squirrels are introduced all over Cali. Greys are found along the coast in San Jose.
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Post by Pat on Aug 27, 2013 9:54:42 GMT -5
Daughter says he is a gray squirrel. We get grays and black squirrels in our yard --- too much. They trash the fruit. Cute but undesirable in a yard with fruit trees.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 27, 2013 9:58:08 GMT -5
They do like fruit trees, don't they? Like the birds eating all my figs aren't bad enough. I've got a ground squirrel that's been coming in my yard recently, don't know where he came from. If I get a clear shot, he's target practice with the pellet gun. He's been pretty quick to disappear whenever I see him, though.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 27, 2013 16:30:55 GMT -5
You have fox squirrels in California for real?
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Post by Pat on Aug 27, 2013 16:37:34 GMT -5
Jamesp, I don't know if we have fox squirrels or not. Maybe Jean knows.
Our black squirrels are all black.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 16:42:33 GMT -5
You have fox squirrels in California for real? Introduced into many many neighborhoods. It seems they are dependent upon humans. We have few tree squirrels in Cali. Only one in SoCal. Up in the pines we have Greys. Farther north Greys will live in the oak woodlands too. But any tree squirrel you see in a neighborhood is a Fox. Cal Poly Pomona has hundreds of them that live along the parking for my kidlet's high school. They are not BIG or BLACK like yours. They are reddish. I think they are mostly "eastern" fox squirrels but they may be many types depending on who brought them. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2013 16:45:23 GMT -5
Pat the black squirrels in San Jose seem to be a mutation of Grey squirrel. That is a black version of albino. Dark color instead of no color.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 27, 2013 17:03:42 GMT -5
The fox squirrels are south of me. They are big. They are also variable in size and color. They are also not very smart.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 27, 2013 17:25:44 GMT -5
Jamesp, I don't know if we have fox squirrels or not. Maybe Jean knows. Our black squirrels are all black. This here is the Western Grey Squirrel  It's possible that there are some melanistic (black) ones. Here's a list of the squirrels found in California: Eastern Gray Squirrel (sort of, it's an introduced species) Fox Squirrel (introduced as well) Western Gray Squirrel GROUND SQUIRRELS San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel (endangered, only found in California) White-tailed Antelope Squirrel Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Belding's Ground Squirrel California Ground Squirrel Yellow-bellied Marmot FLYING SQUIRRELS Northern flying squirrel CHIPMUNKS Alpine Chipmunk Yellow-pine Chipmunk Merriam's Chipmunk California Chipmunk Yellow-cheeked Chipmunk Panamint Chipmunk Long-eared Chipmunk Allen's Chipmunk Siskiyou Chipmunk Sonoma Chipmunk Lodgepole Chipmunk Uinta Chipmunk Nine furry little beasts with "squirrel" in the name. I don't think of chipmunks as real squirrels. Now, go to this site Squirrels of California to see drawings of all of them. |
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