I was feeling rather squirrelly one day and decided to go to a local park and photograph some squirrels. I believe that these squirrels are Eastern Gray Squirrels. The diet of the gray squirrel is composed of acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts, beechnuts, maple (buds, bark, and samaras), yellow poplar blossoms, American Hornbeam Seeds, apples, fungi, black cherry, flowering dogwood, grapes, sedges, grasses, American Holley, insects (adult and larvae), baby birds, bird eggs and amphibians. They have even been reported to eat each other.
There many sub-species of the family SCIURIDAE including but not limited to Fox Squirrels, flying squirrels, and Red Squirrels.
No comments:
Post a Comment