About ten days ago I noticed dried mushrooms on my deck. Then one morning, I stepped out front and on my porch were these mushrooms pictured below.
It's been a dry summer and no mushrooms are out yet. These are probably from the local rat who was stashing them from the bountiful harvest of mushrooms last summer.
Here's the baby grey squirrel dashing over my deck to the forest to hide each found mushroom! I watched him duck under my cabin and emerge with a mushroom. I followed him into the forest and watched him hide them, one by one, in tree limbs. He was busy for over two hours this morning.
Here he is just leaving my cabin where he ran right past me with his treaure.
After hiding the mushrooms, he went back to one of
the nearest trees to my deck and began to enjoy a snack.
the nearest trees to my deck and began to enjoy a snack.
Below he hid the one he'd been eating and ran
to another limb to find a newly stashed one to try.
to another limb to find a newly stashed one to try.
Below is a ground squirrel that found one of the dried mushrooms today.
The squirrel ends up dropping them on his way to find new hiding places.
The squirrel ends up dropping them on his way to find new hiding places.
A ground squirrel nibbles on one of the stashed mushrooms.
Later in the afternoon, the little guy ran across my deck to the forest. I followed. He began digging through pine needles and dirt on the ground and running from one area to another until he scored a mushroom.
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