Release of Huey and Duey

On Wednesday we released our baby squirrels, Huey and Duey. Huey came out first, looked around a little bit, then jumped off the porch into the palmettos. He later learned to climb trees, even the really tall ones (luckily squirrels are not scared of heights!) Duey came out soon after, but was much more cautious. He seemed to enjoy digging in a few pots filled with soil. He hung around on the porch for awhile, then when he finally stepped off of it, a kingfisher flew by overhead making a racket and scared poor Duey right back into the cage! But, he quickly came back out and then explored the porch some more and later found out how much fun it was to run up and down the big trees like his brother. Later in the afternoon he was back on the porch, trying to bury some acorns that we gave him in a hole between two boards of the porch. He has those natural squirrel instincts!

The next couple of days he came back and checked out the birdseed dropped from the feeder and the food we left out for them. We didn't see Huey, who turns out to be the adventurer of the two! Don't worry, there are plenty of huge live oak trees around that are perfect for squirrels! We miss our little guys but know that they are very happy to be the wild squirrels that they deserve to be!