Getting told off by the Cone Collector (A Squirrel)

I was out trying to record some videos for y’all the other day, and I ended up getting bullied out of the zone by the locals.

In order to prepare for the coming winter months, Squirrels like this one here will climb trees like this Sitka spruce to gnaw off their cones, dropping them onto the ground below and anyone who happens to be passing by. Though they’re not intentionally targeting anyone down below, I couldn’t help but feel like maybe they we’re playing a simple game of target practice with me…

After dropping a sufficient amount of cones, they’ll come down the tree to collect them all and store them in a cache, also known as a squirrel midden, where they will feed from them all winter long. This unintentionally helps the tree spread its cones and thus offspring further from it’s based and ultimately helps the population diversify as some of these cones are inevitably going to be forgotten and will germinate in those new areas far from the tree.

Despite being so cute and fluffy, Squirrels are incredibly territorial and are known to fiercely guard their caches against anyone or anything deemed as a threat. Consider yourself warned!

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Produced & Directed by Ross Reid

~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~

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