Saturday, December 26, 2009

What do squirrels eat other than nuts?

Profile of the Grey Squirrel





The grey squirrel's diet consists mainly of nuts - especially acorns, beechmast, chestnuts and hazelnuts - but they eat a variety of other foods, including fruit, cereal crops, fungi and roots. They also eat the buds and shoots of many trees, and in hard times strip the bark - this has given them a bad reputation with foresters. They attack hardwood trees from twenty to forty years old, and especially sycamore and beech. They remove bark from the main stem or from branches to get at the bast and cambium layers below, which they eat. They do this in spring and summer, probably because of temporary food shortages.What do squirrels eat other than nuts?
Fruits and eggs. A local species here gnaw through a coconut's (not a nut) husk and shell to eat the flesh inside.What do squirrels eat other than nuts?
sunflower seeds !
wolves
baby birds and eggs, fruit pits, grass and weed seeds
Small insects.

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