Ny Neighbor - The Squirrel

I have a large window in the front of my house that overlooks my front porch and the neighborhood. Every morning I open up the drapes and drink coffee while I watch the news and what is going on outside. There is a large fir tree to the left of my porch. For the last 3 days there has been a little squirrel that runs along the porch fence, back and forth about every 2 minutes. He goes down into my garden, picks up a bunch of leaves and runs back up, across the fence and jumps on the tree and climbs way up beyond where I can see him. No doubt he is building a nest. I really love watching him. He is very fast as long as I stay on the couch, but if I stand up and move just a little towards the window, he is a little more cautious. I looked under the tree but I can’t see the nest, the tree is too full.

This may be the same one that I watched last summer take a few bites from the wood top of the stairs. He put a nut under the top! (see the picture of the bites).

I also watched him a few weeks ago, he had a peanut and dug into the snow and dropped it in. I went out to see for sure and sure enough there it was.