red squirrel at Sax-Zim Bog MN 854A0972
These little red squirrels sure look cute, and very colorful too when they're sitting on the cold white snow. Also called the pine squirrel, these frisky small mammals spend the fall season caching food just like gray jays and chickadees. They clip ripe conifer cones from the trees and put them in a few large piles called middens, which may be several feet across and a couple feet deep! They'll extract and eat the seeds inside those cones throughout the winter season, digging right down through deep snow to reach that nutritious bounty.
red squirrel at Sax-Zim Bog MN 854A0972
These little red squirrels sure look cute, and very colorful too when they're sitting on the cold white snow. Also called the pine squirrel, these frisky small mammals spend the fall season caching food just like gray jays and chickadees. They clip ripe conifer cones from the trees and put them in a few large piles called middens, which may be several feet across and a couple feet deep! They'll extract and eat the seeds inside those cones throughout the winter season, digging right down through deep snow to reach that nutritious bounty.