[NatureNS] gray squirrel with red squirrel, also cardinals, in Wolfvile

Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:20:14 -0400
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May 4, 2008 - Yesterday and again today I received calls from Ceci Thomson
of Wolfville regarding a GRAY SQUIRREL she has been observing along lower
Sherwood Avenue and in Sherwood Ravine for about six months.  She lives in a
2nd-floor apartment at 10 Sherwood Ave., Apt. 28, 542-2253, and she has a
bird feeder or two associated with a window.  Also she somehow provides food
for the squirrels on an adjacent branch of a pine.  This gray squirrel has a
³buddy², a RED SQUIRREL, and lately they have been chasing and traveling
together?  Also the red squirrel seems to be dominating the larger gray
squirrel.

Perhaps two months ago, she noted a squirrel with a large gray tail, and
that squirrel¹s body was brown.  I wondered if perhaps there is some
seasonal variation in colour in gray squirrel, or perhaps a different
individual, since gray squirrels can show a lot of variation.

This location is only a few blocks west of the yard along Main St. in
Wolfville where, going back to Christmas Eve of 2006, there have been
regular sightings of up to THREE GRAY SQUIRRELS at a time (YIPE!), and at
least one successful LITTER of two babies produced in 2007.  Two gray
squirrels were still being seen there at least as recently as December/07.

Also Ceci mentioned that she sees N. CARDINALS there regularly.

Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Avenue 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3
phone (902)542-9204 (home)
fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.)
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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