Our yard is host to many of our common Easter Grey Squirrels. There have been as many as ten battling for morsels under the bird feeders. We also see a couple American Red Squirrels, and lately they appear to have the upper hand. When it comes to defending their grazing zone, the reds are ferocious. Let a grey get too close, and he's likely to lose a hunk o' tail.
Of course it's also "courting" season, so the pheromones are feeding the frenzies. It's comical to see a territorial standoff followed seamlessly by a wild romantic scramble up and around the tree and out to the end of a branch and back again. All the while the goldfinches and chickadees and titmice flit from feeder to feeder in their own seasonal dance of nesting and gathering and brooding.
It's comforting to see everything working the way it's meant to.
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