How rare is it to find two squirrels at the exact same height on a palm tree trunk?
I love to show you our squirrels here at home on Fridays and it has become a habit. They are Grey Squirrels originally brought here by Cecil John Rhodes in the 19th century. See the cited story at the end of this post.
The squirrels live in the many oak trees here in the complex that we live in and of course they eat at our house.
Come and look see!
This was our morning and it is raining in spurts today with the sun breaking through occasionally.
And then there were three squirrels on the palm tree trunk.
Game time as they started chasing each other around the tree trunk.
We think that this is one of the parents keeping an eye and eating a snack while the kids were playing on the tree trunk.
And finally, here was another one with a nut.
Native to the hardwood forests of North America, the Grey squirrel was introduced into South Africa by Cecil John Rhodes. At the turn of the 19th century he released squirrels on Groote Schuur estate in Cape Town. By the 1970’s their range had extended as far as Swellendam in the Western Cape. Their distribution is patchy and discontinuous being closely associated with oak trees and pine plantations, and expands and contracts with the establishment and removal of the trees.
To date their range remains confined to the south-western Cape and in most cases the squirrels will only expand their range by introduction new plantations. Restricted to pine and oak plantations, as well as suburban gardens in the south-western Cape. Natural distribution is North America.
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So yes. the squirrels only live down here and not in the interior of the country. I remember how thrilled we were when we moved in here and discovered that a squirrel family would welcome us with open arms (and open mouths).
And That's All Friends!
Note: All photos are my own and taken with a Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.
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