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2 January 2021, Saturday - A fox showed up this morning, however only for a couple seconds. Below is a video of the fox with the clip played three times so that it’s easier to catch. Enjoy.

17 January 2021, Sunday - One squirrel’s stashed peanut might be another squirrel’s buried treasure. Below is a video of an eastern gray squirrel burying a peanut in the snow, and a different squirrel (it has a slightly longer tail) finding it, digging it up and scampering off with it. According to Wikipedia, “Like many members of the family Sciuridae, the eastern gray squirrel is a scatter-hoarder; it hoards food in numerous small caches for later recovery. Some caches are quite temporary, especially those made near the site of a sudden abundance of food which can be retrieved within hours or days for reburial in a more secure site. Others are more permanent and are not retrieved until months later. Each squirrel is estimated to make several thousand caches each season. The squirrels have very accurate spatial memory for the locations of these caches, and use distant and nearby landmarks to retrieve them. Smell is used partly to uncover food caches, and also to find food in other squirrels' caches. Scent can be unreliable when the ground is too dry or covered in snow.” Enjoy the video.

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