I spent over 5 hours this morning wandering through the woods.
I covered over two miles, half of which is made up of some of the toughest terrain I’ve ever hiked.
I got to see my limit of 5 squirrels, but only one within shooting range.
Lots of time spent propped up against trees trying to be invisible.
Got home, was cleaning the lone squirrel out on the side of the house when I heard a huge racket coming from out in front of the house.
Running around the tree in my front yard, a tree that sits 25 feet from my front door, are 10 squirrels.
It’s squirrel rut time. I’m assuming the females were the ones out on the very tip of flimsy branches refusing to turn their backs to all the bickering and fighting going on.
If I didn’t live within the town limits, I would have done a bit of culling.
You never really appreciate how squirrels can hang upside down from trees, until you’ve had the opportunity to examine the almost surgical precision of their claws close up.
After you remove them from being embedded in your hand.
BrookfieldAngler
9 Jan 2012Do you eat those things??
Ken G
9 Jan 2012If you just fry them up, you’re pretty much wasting them.
I make an exceptional stew out of them.
Found out the hard way that you have to go very light on what you add to the stew. Don’t get heavy handed with the herbs and spices.
Virtually everything is edible. I have a recipe for sparrows. I think it calls for around 30 or 40 of them. Little more effort to do that than I want to expend.