Who can resist the melanist?
Pretty they may be with their magnificent bushy tails, but with hazelnut trees to left and right, joined by a potentially pretty lawn across our garden, they are NOT WELCOME! How cutely they sit up and beg. The children love them... not me!
Not content to rob me of all my lovely hazelnuts, they come in and plant them in our lawn, to dig up later.
But yesterday, sitting on the roof ridge on our garage was something different... a squirrel that was completely black. A melanistic squirrel. Absolutely beautiful!
“Go on then, Blacky, help yourself... all the others do!
- Category: True Stories Told As Fiction
- Tags: Hazelnuts = Filberts (US)
8 comments add one below
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VerityAlways over 2 years ago
I'm just imagining the tress passers you keep up ! Busy day, every day!
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Christopher over 2 years ago
I like the squirrels that congregate in my yard. What I can't stand are chipmunks. Destructive little s.o.b.'s!
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Neville Hunt over 2 years ago
I saw my first chipmunks on holiday in Devon, in captivity. Cute little fellas, but I can imagine they aren’t so cute when you on the wrong side of them!
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Christopher over 2 years ago
Yeah, they're cute but they chew on everything. They'll even climb under the hood of your car and chew through wires.
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Neville Hunt over 2 years ago
I hate them!
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Jamie Clapperton over 2 years ago
Suspect it's unlikely I'll see a melanistic squirrel on Tooting Common but I'll be looking out for them now. Must have been something to see.
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Christopher over 2 years ago
Tooting Common? He was a Pharaoh, wasn't he? :)
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Neville Hunt over 2 years ago
Hohoho! Christopher; you’re such a wag!
Jamie, there are one or two melanistic squirrels that have been seen in our village, but this was the first one I’d seen close up and at home. It looked most elegant.
