Hi, Dale and all

No "bum rap" in any way! The Douglas squirrels will put peanuts in every
pot on the deck even when we are sitting out there watching them. They may
have a main cache, but, believe me, they store peanuts in the shell
everywhere!! The greys are more leery of humans; the Douglas squirrels
don't give a hoot and will climb up a leg if one is reading and no nuts are
available at the time.

Diann

At 11:49 AM 11/2/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Diann, are you giving the Douglas squirrels a "bum rap". I've been watching
>squirrels for about a year, and reading about squirrels, and from what I've
>read and observed, the Gray squirrels indeed do dig everywhere. The Douglas
>squirrels are cache hoarders, not scatter hoarders, and don't go around
>burying nuts all over like Gray squirrels do, but rather store their savings
>in one big cache. I suspect it's the Gray ones burying the nuts.
>
>Just a thought, I'm still a new guy.
>
>Dale Christensen