We have a regular visitor to our yard, we've named him squirrel Nutkin, because he had a rather nasty encounter with our cat and lost part of his tail. After it happened, I was so afraid he had crawled away to die somewhere and I kept watching for a tail-less squirrel. I think this is the one, his tail is much less "plume-y" then the other squirrels...
Here is Nutkin at the squirrel feeder we put up to hopefully save our bird feeders for the ..birds.
Today we spotted Nutkin perched on one of our sunflowers, eating the seeds. Exactly what we had in mind for those...
"But Nutkin was excessively impertinent in his manners. ...Nutkin danced up and down like a sunbeam; ...This looks like the end of the story, but it isn't...Nutkin pulled so very hard that his tail broke in two, and he dashed up the staircase and escaped out of the attic window. ...And to this day, if you meet Nutkin up a tree and ask him a riddle, he will throw sticks at you, and stamp his feet and scold, and shout- 'cuck-cuck-cuck-cur-r-r-cuck-k-k!'. The End. "