This is the squirrel who claims the backyard.

I had put some nuts in both the backyard and on the front porch.

As I posted earlier, the squirrel from the spruce in the front yard

has not problem coming up on the porch for nuts. However the

nuts I put on the chair by the bird bath stayed there until snow
and wind knocked them down. Saturday I put out sunflower
seeds and bread crusts I intended for the magpies. He worked on
them for hours but ignored the last Brazil nut on the chair.

``Till winter loosening these

With a first flurry and bluster,

Shall scatter across the snow-crust

Their dropped parentheses.``

                               Asides

                                                       Richard Wilbur

                  I tried a little experiment the next day I moved the

nuts closer to the bird feeder and they disappeared.

I now suspect he is afraid to get to far from the trees

because two small yappy dogs periodically race

from the house barking and chase him along the fence.