By sheer luck I caught a snippet of this ridiculously funny confrontation! The duck had landed, so I went out with food for the bowl; he knows when it's for him! As he was ready to come for it, the squirrel dashed in! As the duck put his head in the bowl to get some seeds, the squirrel lashed out at him and then flung both front arms across the bowl! This was when the duck stepped back (probably thinking, "Crazy-ass squirrel!")
Now feeling sorry for the duck, I quickly set out a second bowl. The squirrel, having picked out the sunflower seeds, dashed to the freshly-filled dish...and it all began again!
I left them to sort it out and had to go back in to share the story with Ken! This is the never-ending land of entertainment!
hahahaha we must teach the duck to flap its wings in a threatening manner lol - or maybe it doesn't like sunflower and uses the squirrel to weed them out hahahaha
Aww, brilliant! Hopefully in time they will learn to share :-)
When we fed the squirrels in Leeds, the ducks also came over to see what's what. But it was the rooks that blew us away, they buried them in the ground, just like the squirrels, so they could get more faster and come back later to eat their treasure. Animals are so smart!
Cute capture, the squirrels aren't afraid of any birds unforntunately!
A friend of mine said he had a lynx show up in his yard and the lynx sat under his bird feeder all day and ate all the squirrels that came along!!
Great story telling photo
When we fed the squirrels in Leeds, the ducks also came over to see what's what. But it was the rooks that blew us away, they buried them in the ground, just like the squirrels, so they could get more faster and come back later to eat their treasure. Animals are so smart!
A friend of mine said he had a lynx show up in his yard and the lynx sat under his bird feeder all day and ate all the squirrels that came along!!
Too bad you didn't take a video of this!