somebody took a chunk out of one of my squirrels!!

02/06/2013 10:37:27 AM · #1

whoa!!! He was just on my deck, and there's a massive chunk out of his nose!! Pictures to come if he comes back! I just put food out to see if I could get him back, but I've got a different squirrel at the moment.

It almost looked like he had three eyes at first glance.

02/06/2013 10:51:49 AM · #2

That was me. I borrowed his nose for a mini-snowman I'm making. I'll bring it back next week. Promise.

02/06/2013 10:52:30 AM · #3

meanie!!

02/06/2013 10:55:12 AM · #4

ok -- he hasn't come back, so I'll post the awful, fuzzy, moving away shots anyway, though it's the straight on that will be the most impressive.

This one is just, yeah, he's missing some. Doesn't really look like that much here

But this gives you a little more of a feel of how big it is that it shows up on a blurred, head moving shot:

I'm guessing he came in contact with a beak, but I don't know how he would have gotten away from that close of an encounter. Near miss?

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02/06/2013 11:39:33 AM · #5

Wow, I really DID mangle him, didn't I?

hahn23

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02/06/2013 11:45:38 AM · #6

Frost bite. Just like that guy (Dr. Beck Weathers) who climbed Mt. Everest in a blizzard and survived. Have you had a batch of extreme cold recently.

02/06/2013 12:11:34 PM · #7

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Wow, I really DID mangle him, didn't I?

The end of the nose is the cute part -- I'm not sure why you went for the middle.

02/06/2013 12:12:52 PM · #8

Originally posted by hahn23:

Frost bite. Just like that guy (Dr. Beck Weathers) who climbed Mt. Everest in a blizzard and survived. Have you had a batch of extreme cold recently.

We're Virginia. It doesn't get cold. :)

But isn't that amazing! Have you read Into Thin Air? Still can't believe that guy made it out alive.

02/06/2013 12:16:17 PM · #9

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by hahn23:
Frost bite. Just like that guy (Dr. Beck Weathers) who climbed Mt. Everest in a blizzard and survived. Have you had a batch of extreme cold recently.

We're Virginia. It doesn't get cold. :)

But isn't that amazing! Have you read Into Thin Air? Still can't believe that guy made it out alive.

I certainly have. And Into the Wild as well, by the same author.

02/06/2013 12:18:41 PM · #10

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by hahn23:
Frost bite. Just like that guy (Dr. Beck Weathers) who climbed Mt. Everest in a blizzard and survived. Have you had a batch of extreme cold recently.

We're Virginia. It doesn't get cold. :)

But isn't that amazing! Have you read Into Thin Air? Still can't believe that guy made it out alive.

I certainly have. And Into the Wild as well, by the same author.

Didn't care for into the wild as much. Maybe because the kid irritated me.

02/06/2013 12:27:51 PM · #11

Originally posted by vawendy:

...the kid irritated me.

More than the idiot expedition leaders/climbers of Into Thin Air?

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02/06/2013 12:37:24 PM · #12

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by vawendy:
...the kid irritated me.

More than the idiot expedition leaders/climbers of Into Thin Air?

Definitely some of the leaders irritated me. But the history of the mountain and the story was interesting enough. Maybe I was just in a mood, and was reading it from a mom's point of view, but I kept getting irritated. Such a waste..

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snaffles

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02/06/2013 12:41:15 PM · #13

Hmm to me the bite or whatever it is looks more from the middle of the nose. Maybe had a scuffle with another squirrel and they took a chunk out of him. Doubt that any squirrel could survive an attack from a beak belonging to a bird strong enough to do that damage, and live.

As for both those books, yep read em both about a year ago. Idiotic expedition leaders in Into Thin Air, indeed.

RyanW

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02/06/2013 12:55:56 PM · #14

Originally posted by vawendy:

he wants to be able to stand out in the group shots you have planned. he's already marked as being your favorite subject, now you can easily find him in every other shot you take going forward

still, poor guy...

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hahn23

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02/06/2013 02:11:37 PM · #15

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by hahn23:
Frost bite. Just like that guy (Dr. Beck Weathers) who climbed Mt. Everest in a blizzard and survived. Have you had a batch of extreme cold recently.

We're Virginia. It doesn't get cold. :)

But isn't that amazing! Have you read Into Thin Air? Still can't believe that guy made it out alive.

I certainly have. And Into the Wild as well, by the same author.

Didn't care for into the wild as much. Maybe because the kid irritated me.

Into the Wild had a profound effect on me. After watching that movie, I no longer take the chance of consuming, or recommend anyone else consume, wild plants and fungi. One can live without food for a couple weeks, as long as one has water. But, eat something poisonous and it's hard to get to the hospital in time. We don't have poisonous snakes in the High Country, but we do have poisonous plants.

I will guess your squirrel may have been attacked by a domestic cat off leash. My second guess would be large owl caught the critter and flew off with him, only to lose talon grip and drop the squirrel to the ground from the treetops.

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EL-ROI

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02/06/2013 02:19:26 PM · #16

It could have been frost bite, as

hahn23 stated. We have had temperatures as low as 17 deg. farenheit around the east coast. I just saw a cat that comes around my in-laws property this morning and her whole back end was raw and exposed... on the legs and such. So frost bite is a big possibility.

It could also have been caused by being caught in a trap, then escaping. Squirrels will often rub there faces raw when they get caught in squirrel traps.

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02/06/2013 03:48:01 PM · #17

Forgot about cats. Probably a cat or another squirrel. Though we do have owls

He never did come back, so I'm wondering if it was another squirrel. I had two squirrels show up, but not this guy.

I wouldn't think it would be frostbite, because usually that's tips of ears or ends of noses, tails, etc. This was pretty much the middle of the nose, and it definitely looked torn out.

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Leo

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02/06/2013 04:29:20 PM · #18

Mmmm. Tastes like chicken :P

kawesttex

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02/06/2013 04:32:10 PM · #19

Mine got a hole in its chest. But I know who the culprit is.

Spork99

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02/06/2013 05:23:14 PM · #20

Originally posted by vawendy:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by vawendy:
...the kid irritated me.

More than the idiot expedition leaders/climbers of Into Thin Air?

Definitely some of the leaders irritated me. But the history of the mountain and the story was interesting enough. Maybe I was just in a mood, and was reading it from a mom's point of view, but I kept getting irritated. Such a waste..

I found Touching the Void to be a much more inspiring and harrowing tale of survival when things go wrong mountain climbing.

DrAchoo

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02/06/2013 05:41:23 PM · #21

Touching the Void was some sweet, suspenseful action! I wasn't sure they were going to make it even though they were there telling me the story!

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02/09/2013 12:33:50 PM · #22

Seriously???

No face hasn't been back, back now one ear is here.

ROBERT!!! STAY AWAY FROM MY SQUIRRELS!! SNOWMEN DON'T NEED EARS!

hahn23

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

02/09/2013 12:58:48 PM · #23

Originally posted by vawendy:

Seriously???

No face hasn't been back, back now one ear is here.

ROBERT!!! STAY AWAY FROM MY SQUIRRELS!! SNOWMEN DON'T NEED EARS!

That really looks like frostbite damage.