A rabbit paused to look at them, and two squirrels quarrelled over a nut, within reach of their hands,--so still were they.
In two of them we found the nests of flying squirrels; but in both cases the squirrels "flew" before the tree fell, and sailed away to other firs, standing near.
The songs of birds and the chatter of squirrels filled the woodland.
Then a rabbit and couple of squirrels were shot, and, with the same wolf-like appetites, they made a nourishing and substantial meal.
Despite the fact that he is an expert climber, Yowler spends most of his time on the ground and is one of the worst enemies of Rabbits, Mice, Squirrels and ground Birds.
Now just remember that the Chipmunks are Rock Squirrels and their cousins the Spermophiles are Ground Squirrels.
His home is on the great plains and in the flat, open country of the Middle West and Far West, where Gophers and Ground Squirrels and Prairie Dogs live.
He goes hunting for the holes of Ground Squirrelsand other burrowers, and when he finds one promptly digs.
In a way he is about as closely related to the Ground Squirrels as he is to the Marmots.
He digs a burrow with several entrances and his food consists largely of Pocket Mice, Kangaroo Rats, Ground squirrels and such other small animals as are found in that part of the country.
He is the strongest and heaviest of the Tree Squirrels and not nearly as quick and graceful as Happy Jack.
Johnny Chuck has only four claws on each front foot, but Yap Yap has five, just as the Ground Squirrels have.
They are called Gray Ground Squirrels and sometimes Gray Gophers.
In some parts of the country there are numbers of these black-coated Squirrels and many think they are a different kind of Squirrel.
The high nests often are old deserted nests of Squirrels enlarged and built over.
Because, when the rest of you squirrels are out and about, he is curled up in a little ball in his nest, fast asleep.
Way down in the Sunny South Fox Squirrels always have white noses and ears.
I should say the chief difference between Striped Chipmunk and the Tree Squirrels is that he spends all his time on the ground while the others live largely in the trees.
For some years Lady Russell had found great amusement and delight in the visits of a little wild squirrel--squirrels abounded among the old trees at Pembroke Lodge--which gradually became more and more tame and friendly.
The vervain, the heliotropes, are in flower, as they are every year, and the squirrels run up and down the trees without asking what is going on in Paris.
Every afternoon about three, when tea was toward, the squirrels gathered on the gravel path, and prepared to receive bread and butter.
No less than five kinds of squirrels had been caught and caged.
If it were, the poor birds as well as the squirrelswould have little chance; but it cannot climb.
On this branch, however, the squirrels had now gathered, one behind the other in a long string, and we could see the foremost of them straining himself as if to spring.
The squirrels had gathered upon that side; and now, instead of running up and down the trunks, as before, they all stood upon the topmost branches apparently watching the motions of the log.
I expected--there was a hole in the trunk, high up; and around its orifice the bark was slightly discoloured, evidently by the paws of the squirrels passing in and out.
It was plain that the squirrels had been living for some time upon short allowance, and were anxious to get off from the place.
I have trafficked in squirrels and guinea-pigs, have invested my all in an Angora rabbit, and have undergone discipline for bringing a dormouse into school.
They loved to listen to the squirrels chattering in the trees, and to watch the rabbits scamper across the paths.
Sometimes the boys bring home winged squirrels which they have caught while flying from tree to tree, but these little creatures do not enjoy being made captive.
Inside the copse the doves were cooing, squirrels leaping, the cuckoo crying, as the mite went along.
Wild hare and squirrels were so many that they became pests, and so much grain was eaten by them that bounties were paid in many towns for the heads of squirrels.
Hector and Louis remarked that the red and black squirrels never were to be found very near each other.
FN: Within the last three years, however, the black squirrelshave been very numerous, and the red are less frequently to be seen.
It is a common belief, that the red squirrels make common cause with the grey, and beat the larger enemy off the ground.
Hector was so confident that he should return in safety, that at last Louis and Catharine became more reconciled to his leaving them, and soon busied themselves in preparing some squirrels that Louis had brought in that morning.
The squirrels were very plenty; but it required two or three, and, sometimes, as many as half a dozen shots, to bring one down.
I can kill as many squirrels by throwing the musket at them, as I can by shooting at them.
Squirrels barked at us from the trees; coveys of young partridges ran rustling over the leaves below, and the golden oriole, the blue jay, and the flaming red-bird darted among the shadowy branches.
The squirrels also attained an unusual size, one that we shot measuring twenty-seven inches from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail, and their flesh furnished us with many a savoury stew.
A numerous and contented family of squirrels had dug their winding burrow under its friendly walls--and we often saw the father or mother scampering over the grass, and the young ones playing before the door.
The birds and squirrels find their home and food among the trees and plants.
For example, a child that has seen none but red squirrels would naturally think all squirrels red, and include the quality red in his general notion.
There are also many porcupines, rabbits, and barking squirrels in the neighborhood.
And then in a minute the squirrels fell on the mole and killed it, and Sep thanked them and rode back to the palace, for, of course, he knew that when a magician is killed, all his magic unworks itself instantly.
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