We have a lot of squirrels here at the Boggy Thicket, and we have an awful lot of leaves on the ground, a carpet of leaves that is up to three inches deep in spots.
That is why this struck us a funny.
There is a squirrel currently building a nest near the top of a big oak tree that grows just outside our back door. The leaves are thick around the base of the tree, but several times we have seen the squirrel go outside the fence, gather a huge mouthful of leaves, then force the leaves and himself through the holes in the chain link to haul them up to the nest.
To me, the leaves he selects look exactly like the ones that he runs across to gather leaves outside the fence, but I'm no expert. Maybe he knows something I don't.
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