I had determined to not make any more entries about squirrels, but I just have to. Yesterday I was minding my own business, making my way to my 8am class. I was walking by the place where I always see a few hundred squirrels, and I happened to see a couple of them fighting. Well, who am I to pass up a fight? I stepped off of the sidewalk and sipped my mountain dew. After watching them roll around for a little bit, I realized that it wasn’t two squirrels fighting, it was a squirrel and a bird. The bird was like, flapping one wing around real crazily. So I guess the squirrel got tired of fighting him, or got hurt or something, so he ran a couple of yards away to one of the picnic tables. The bird flapped around a little bit, and so another squirrel decided that he’d have a go. There were quite a few squirrels standing around. Anyway, yeah, the other squirrel jumped in and they fought for a little bit. He stopped, and backed up to the other ones. They all stood there for a little bit, and the bird wasn’t moving. All of a sudden I noticed some feathers falling from the big tree. I took notice, cause that was kind of weird. And then a squirrel came down the trunk of the tree and stopped about 8 feet from the ground. There was another feather coming down with him, and I looked closer. He had a big feather in his mouth…and then he reached up with his paw, pulled the feather out of his mouth, and dropped it. He looked really hardcore. Anyway, I guess that was a signal, because the other squirrels ran up into the tree.
So all of them but one that had been standing on a picnic table ran off and up into the tree. I heard them jump from that tree to another one. Anyway, it was weird. I went to my class and came back an hour later, and there was still a squirrel standing in the exact same spot. I walked over to get a closer look at things and he ran up into the tree. They had to have come down while I was gone, because the bird was moved a little bit. He was really mangled, I had no idea squirrels were that vicious. And I wonder if squirrels weren’t the cause of our “west nile” scare (all the dead birds around campus).
It was fun.
