Rocky the Squirrel RIP

Next on your Hit list: Yogi the Birdfeeder busting Bear!!  

Strange,  but due to Climate Change, Tax laws or DNA Mixing the squirrels in my neighborhood have changed from all Brown to a variety of black and brown!! Black squirrels are common along the lakeshore communities of Lake Michigan and seems they've moved inland and mixed in with the Basic Browns of our neighborhood. Kinda strange to see at the feeder a Black body w/ brown face or brown body with Black tail and feet.  Your Rocky (RIP) looked to be a gray squirrel? I remember as a youngster having Sunday Dinner at my Aunt and Uncles house.  Aunt Sally serving up a roaster pan full of 4-legged chickens, that Uncle Jim caught hunting!

Wonder if may be it died of old age.

Regarding the change in squirrels from brown to black and brown, have you played music to see whether they would react to salsa   or God Save the Queen?

Might tell you where they are originally from. If they do neither, they might be in-bred and support mother and apple pie.

Regardless, in upcoming meat shortage days with a pellet gun, they'd be just as tasty as chicken but leaner.

A sad and touching story, Bob, I love squirrels, they are so beautiful with their big black eyes. We also see them at our lakeside summer house, a mother with 3 pups often coming to the feeder our neighbor has built, they are hopping on the ridge of the fence.

Do you think Rocky died of natural causes, or was poisoned? It does not seem to be usual that wild animals come and die in the neighborhood of humans?.

Poison crossed my mind, new neighbors next door but I saw no foaming at the mouth. Small, may have been a female. Rockette maybe.

Gray squirrel, numerous around here. We have some smaller red's but they are the exception. Chipmunks too.

That's too bad. They are sure interesting to watch. But it was nice of you to do what you did for it as well as giving it a burial.