Since I am ready for winter to be over and spring to be here, I thought I would post this. We have several squirrels that live in our yard and run in and out of our old hollow maple trees. Last summer I decided that would plant some sunflowers next to my glider. So I planted some sunflower seeds and waited for them to come up. A few came up so I thought I planted some more . I went in the house and looked outside and the squirrel in this picture was digging up my sunflower seeds and eating them. I couldn't believe it! In the fall we noticed that the sunflowers that made it were broken over. Jeff thought the birds were sitting on the sunflowers and breaking them off. Nope. Squirrels again. I watched the squirrel get up on my planter, reach up and bend the head of sunflower over and breaking them so that he could get to the sunflower seeds. After that I just cut off the dead sunflower heads and put them next to bench so he could get them. He would pack off the sunflower heads even one that was three or four inches across. I don't how he did that but he did. Besides sunflower seeds he also likes tomatoes. Jeff and a friend watched him steal some of the neighbors tomatoes out of his garden. They saw him pick a tomato, carry it over our fence, through a flower bed, across the driveway, past the bench and then take it up into the tree. I was wondering why the neighbor was throwing his rotten tomatoes in my flower bed. Wasn't the neighbor. It was the squirrel. And I was blaming my neighbor! So there you have it - a sunflower loving, tomato stealing squirrel. Isn't that something!
