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[OM] Re: Rethinking the Tree Rodent

Subject: [OM] Re: Rethinking the Tree Rodent
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:31:16 -0300

Okay, I'm a little slow and just catching on now. I guess they were saying 
they'd eat young rabbits, as in very young ones I suppose. Makes more sense 
now.
Wayne :-)


>
>>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> My wife sent your photo off to the Massachusetts Audubon Society for 
>> their
>> amusement and here's their reply:
>>
>> Thanks for the photo, and your inquiry. The squirrel in the photo is a 
>> red
>> squirrel, not a gray squirrel and they are far more carnivorous than the
>> gray. Their diet is mainly made up of seeds, nuts and berries. They will
>> occasionally eat birds and bird eggs and have been known to eat young 
>> gray
>> squirrels and cottontail rabbits.
>>
>
>> I thought that squirrel looked a bit like a red squirrel.  They're nasty
>> little devils. 8-)  Great shot btw.
>>
>> Richard
>
> Yes, I knew it was a red squirrel. Gray squirrels are quite a bit larger,
> and here in NB live mostly only in towns that have a few mature trees. We
> live in a rural area, so there are none here.
> I don't think we have cottontail rabbits, but we do have rabbits, or more
> properly I think the ones we have are called hares. I'd guess it would 
> take
> more than one red squirrel to wrestle one of them down though.
>
> Wayne
>
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