I can offer up apples, pears, raisins, peaches, avocados, tomatoes, green beans, squash etc, cut up into different sizes, but I never actually see squirrels eating anything I put out there other than peanuts! It's possible they eat some of it much later on, because it'll eventually disappear. But it could also be eaten by other animals!
This seems like pizza vs oatmeal. I'm sure there's at least one weirdo out there who would leave the pizza peanut in favor of the oatmeal loquat. They're so damn adorable.
This is a really cute Video. I love to feed Squirrels as well. And the Chipmunks. I have one in particular I like very much. I named Him "Half-tail". Thus, half a tail. He does come on the deck(upper) and walk past the sliding door and looks for me. ~ I think you are a good person to love squirrels. ~ I can't tell you how many bags after bags of Peanuts they have enjoyed. I could have a Peanut Plantation!! :)
Need a good video on mixing up feed they will eat. I bought Amazon’s best mix with the corn and sunflowers, and only picked out black sunflowers. I the bought 50lb of premium shelled unsalted peanuts and 25lb of unsalted shelled sunflowers (both are delicious and I have enjoyed eating them myself) but squirrels will not eat at all after mixing them together
I enjoy feeding our wild squirrel too. I learned how to call her on UA-cam. She comes when I call, no matter where in the neighborhood she is, she comes. She eats peanuts out of my hand. For Christmas she got acorns, peanuts, almonds, walnuts (all in the shells so she can keep her teeth sharp and short). If I don't show up at the same time to feed her, she is so excited when she sees me that she reaches out to me with her hands. I'm afraid she's going to jump on my head.
That's fantastic, very gratifying when you establish a relationship with them. Mine will knock on the door and look in the window trying to get my attention.
Please Can you direct me to some videos regarding how to call to squirrels, especially when one is putting out food for them. I've had several friendly visitors to my very small back garden in the past few recent years, including a frog/toad that was living in my pot plants n came out whenever I watered my pot plants, once it went indoors behind sofa without me knowing, and I had to rescue it, I've had a very clever hedgehog, that first started eating things on the ground that the birds knocked off the bird table, then I put out cat food for it every night, and it kept coming back every night for cat food, anyone reading this do not feed hedgehogs bread nor milk, these are extremely bad and dangerous for hedgehogs,and where I live there are always red kites, beautiful birds of prey, soaring around, but I've never seen one up close, if I were to put out joints of meat they might come closer, but I don't want to attract rats nor gliss gliss ( Severn sleepers to the Germans), so I've not put out meat for red kites but I know their call, several times I've had foxes both out the back and out the front, I don't have a front garden, and for about the last month I've had a squirrel in back garden, I'm just learning about squirrels, what they eat, nuts, seeds, fruit, etc, and the general sort of noises that they make, I can hear them in trees of neighbours, it's getting closer to me, I think because it knows I put out food for it, and it has quickly learnt that I am not a threat, squirrels are very intelligent animals, it would really help the squirrel if it knew some call from me signifying food.
What a cute video! The only times I've seen squirrels interested in fruit is that once in a while they nibble on fallen apples under our apple trees, but they seem to do that only when they don't have something they like better to eat.
That's funny to me. I give my squirrels choices too. The younger ones are not to picky. Some of the older ones get picky. Just yesterday I put out some type of chips, and the younger squirrels ate them up. Rascal, one of the older ones looked at the chip, looked at me, and the look he had was, come on man, don't be holding out. I know you still have peanut butter and pistachios. So I had to dig out the nuts. I couldn't handle the looks what his looks were telling me, he knows how to get to me sometimes, but I'm slowly straightening him out using Pavlov's theory.
On a recent hot day I had a squirrel laid out flat trying to keep cool. I threw some sliced kiwi near it and it reached over for it. I think they will go after what they need at the time. Most want the fats in peanuts. I have trouble with them accepting anything else I put out. But, they do seem to like kiwis and citrus. Apples, too.
I think the reason they didn't take the fruit is you never put it in your hand and introduced it to them. They took the peanut because that how they remember that as something to eat when you started taming them.
OK... my humor is getting the best of me here. Q. Have you ever in your life heard of anyone waking up, stretching, and, thinking of breakfast, saying, "Aaaah... I can't wait to have some loquats!" This is an earnest question. I mean. I have never heard of loquat cheesecake, or loquat sorbet, or ... loquat bread. Loquat Pie. Loquat Compote. (Say that ten times really fast without messing up :D). I have never heard of loquat flavored anything. Or loquat extract. But you know. "Even the smallest fruit can change the course of a compote." (Fellowsnip of the Things quote.) :)
Never even heard of a loquat til just now! My squirrels love unsalted roasted peanuts, blackoil sunflower seeds, strawberries, apples, any nut in the shell, and as a special treat, peanut butter and micro greens. If I don’t feed them fast or often enough, they’ve learned to tear my screens and look indignant while also begging in my windowsills. I shouldn’t even bother calling them my squirrels anymore because I swear, one of them listed me as a local wildlife food pantry in the local paper and it turns out that lo and behold, I’m their human! It’s ok though. The joy I get from watching and interacting with them, the birds, and the occasional raccoon family is immense! I now where does one find a loquat? ❤️ 🐿
The thing that is surprising is not so much that the squirrels preferred the peanuts to the loquat, it's that they ignored the loquat even when there was no peanut there. I thought animals in the wild had to grab for every morsel they could get. These guys were fussy as hell.
joeschultz2 I think its safe to say they are a bit spoiled. I see them eating loquats out of the tree and the few peanuts i give them supplement their diet - so maybe when they see me they want that peanut. The little buggers will take bites out of all my ripe Mangoes in the summer so I have to pick them green. BB
My neighbor’s palm tree drops a lot of fruit? (pulpy seeds) from their palm tree and the squirrels love them and eat em up! (idk if they’re even any good to eat, lol) But I’m sure those loquats are much more tasty because they’re real edible fruit!
How do you get them to get so close to you? Mine have recently discover some of them like red grapes. If i have some left over that are getting kinda soft for ready to turn, i set them out for them. They ate them all. Last year they would not go near them.
Its just a matter of time, first start by throwing them peanuts and they'll gradually warm up to you - but be careful what you wish for, now they follow me around wherever I go in the yard and I better have peanuts! BB
I had a garden last year and I had a garden this year and each year my friendly little squirrels 5in Total eat my corn before they mature along with my sunflowers. so next year I am planting underground root veggies.. I noticed that some of them mainly the older generation no how to eat chestnuts but the younger generation do not. I was giving them peanuts and I don't think that was doing them any justice because it was some teaching them how to take care of themselves. Right now they're buring all the peanuts and because they are territorial as soon as one buries their nuts the other one comes along and fix it up and steals it LOL these guys are quite the creatures that God gave us that's for sure
Leo N The squirrels around here won't eat a lot of the stuff thats officially listed as 'squirrel friendly food'. The one thing that no squirrel ever turns down, is a peanut!
I put out veggies, nuts other stuff out every day. Nuts are always #1. They like grapes, apples, carrots, peanuts, bread (not too much) They don't like potatoes, celery or lettuce. Like people some foods better than others, health wise. Nuts better
Squirrels prefer walnuts, almonds, pecans and hazelnuts to actually eat which are coincidentally better for them with "good fat" as well as nutritionally better for them while peanuts are the equivalent of hyper-processed foods for humans. Cute video though.
Your heart is in the right place. Just wanted to say according to a web site called "squirrelnutrition.com" peanuts and corn are not good for squirrels.
Right, the peanuts make up a small part of their overall diet. But like humans they have no self control over eating things that are not good for them rather than fresh fruit.
ThE DuCk Would that be the 1 squirrel walking around, demanding that ALL of the other squirrels recognize ALL of the 31 different squirrel gender pronouns, or the group of masked squirrels, wearing all black, with anarchist and communist flags flying, flipping tree houses over and setting them on fire? Lol. Just kidding. I couldn't resist the social comparison.
Wanda Steeves ?? They're all vegan options. Squirrels are vegetarian in the wild, unless starving (in which case they will attempt to eat decomposing meat)
I got so excited when that squirrel finally picked up the Loquat.
Tenfey The squirrel looked excited too!
He is so cute and he loves peanuts more! Thank you BB.
***** They are spoiled Annemieke!
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Well, At least you got rid of all your "Loquats"....😂😂😂😂
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That one squirrel really doesn't listen to reason. Even after he said, "They're good for you," it still wouldn't take the loquat.
Fruit needs to be cut in half before most critters will try it. They go for what they know. Yeah, one squirrel went for it!
Thanks for your videos!
i was just about to comment "try cutting it". ha!
I can offer up apples, pears, raisins, peaches, avocados, tomatoes, green beans, squash etc, cut up into different sizes, but I never actually see squirrels eating anything I put out there other than peanuts! It's possible they eat some of it much later on, because it'll eventually disappear. But it could also be eaten by other animals!
Kristey H they can smell it..fruits fragrant most of the time
Love the squirrels! And please keep up the voiceovers because you have a very soothing voice :)
Agreed. He is also very funny!
This seems like pizza vs oatmeal. I'm sure there's at least one weirdo out there who would leave the pizza peanut in favor of the oatmeal loquat. They're so damn adorable.
Pineapple 🍍
I saw a documentary on UA-cam about squirrels which said monkey nuts are like a '5 dollar bill' to a squirrel.
Awesome test. Your squirrel friend wants the peanuts! Put a smile on my face....
KennethKramm Thanks Ken, a peanut is a small price to pay for a smile :-)
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This is a really cute Video. I love to feed Squirrels as well. And the Chipmunks. I have one in particular I like very much. I named Him "Half-tail". Thus, half a tail. He does come on the deck(upper) and walk past the sliding door and looks for me. ~ I think you are a good person to love squirrels. ~ I can't tell you how many bags after bags of Peanuts they have enjoyed. I could have a Peanut Plantation!! :)
Need a good video on mixing up feed they will eat. I bought Amazon’s best mix with the corn and sunflowers, and only picked out black sunflowers. I the bought 50lb of premium shelled unsalted peanuts and 25lb of unsalted shelled sunflowers (both are delicious and I have enjoyed eating them myself) but squirrels will not eat at all after mixing them together
I have to eat them or they'll steal all my food and starve me out.
I've named the main squirrel I feed Niles (Frasiers brother from the popular TV sitcom).
I enjoy feeding our wild squirrel too. I learned how to call her on UA-cam. She comes when I call, no matter where in the neighborhood she is, she comes. She eats peanuts out of my hand. For Christmas she got acorns, peanuts, almonds, walnuts (all in the shells so she can keep her teeth sharp and short). If I don't show up at the same time to feed her, she is so excited when she sees me that she reaches out to me with her hands. I'm afraid she's going to jump on my head.
That's fantastic, very gratifying when you establish a relationship with them. Mine will knock on the door and look in the window trying to get my attention.
Please Can you direct me to some videos regarding how to call to squirrels, especially when one is putting out food for them. I've had several friendly visitors to my very small back garden in the past few recent years, including a frog/toad that was living in my pot plants n came out whenever I watered my pot plants, once it went indoors behind sofa without me knowing, and I had to rescue it, I've had a very clever hedgehog, that first started eating things on the ground that the birds knocked off the bird table, then I put out cat food for it every night, and it kept coming back every night for cat food, anyone reading this do not feed hedgehogs bread nor milk, these are extremely bad and dangerous for hedgehogs,and where I live there are always red kites, beautiful birds of prey, soaring around, but I've never seen one up close, if I were to put out joints of meat they might come closer, but I don't want to attract rats nor gliss gliss ( Severn sleepers to the Germans), so I've not put out meat for red kites but I know their call, several times I've had foxes both out the back and out the front, I don't have a front garden, and for about the last month I've had a squirrel in back garden, I'm just learning about squirrels, what they eat, nuts, seeds, fruit, etc, and the general sort of noises that they make, I can hear them in trees of neighbours, it's getting closer to me, I think because it knows I put out food for it, and it has quickly learnt that I am not a threat, squirrels are very intelligent animals, it would really help the squirrel if it knew some call from me signifying food.
She just loves you. She doesn't care about the food.
Look bro! We talked about this.. I told you I don't want no loquat! Lol
What a cute video! The only times I've seen squirrels interested in fruit is that once in a while they nibble on fallen apples under our apple trees, but they seem to do that only when they don't have something they like better to eat.
lol so cute! I'm a squirrely mama myself and feed a ton of squirrels at our Colorado home. love them!!
I just love their furry tails. So cute and adorable.🐿️
I first watched this video about a year ago and I still remember there was one squirrel that wanted the fruit :)
Squirrels are beautiful...💘💘💘 them.
They want nuts 😁thank you for sharing with us all 👍🏻😊
It could be that one Squirrel knew that loquat was over ripe,lol.😆
Hey! These aren't so bad after all!! Just like I saw in my kids time and time again. Great video.
I love Squirrels and feed them as well. Unfortunately mine are dumpster divers around my apartment place. I give them what I can.
I am watching your videos this morning to take my mind off Irma. I pray you are not anywhere near this coming storm.
That's funny to me. I give my squirrels choices too. The younger ones are not to picky. Some of the older ones get picky. Just yesterday I put out some type of chips, and the younger squirrels ate them up. Rascal, one of the older ones looked at the chip, looked at me, and the look he had was, come on man, don't be holding out. I know you still have peanut butter and pistachios. So I had to dig out the nuts. I couldn't handle the looks what his looks were telling me, he knows how to get to me sometimes, but I'm slowly straightening him out using Pavlov's theory.
By the way I really like your channel. You should check out mine sometime.
On a recent hot day I had a squirrel laid out flat trying to keep cool. I threw some sliced kiwi near it and it reached over for it. I think they will go after what they need at the time. Most want the fats in peanuts. I have trouble with them accepting anything else I put out. But, they do seem to like kiwis and citrus. Apples, too.
I think the reason they didn't take the fruit is you never put it in your hand and introduced it to them. They took the peanut because that how they remember that as something to eat when you started taming them.
OK... my humor is getting the best of me here.
Q. Have you ever in your life heard of anyone waking up, stretching, and, thinking of breakfast, saying, "Aaaah... I can't wait to have some loquats!"
This is an earnest question. I mean. I have never heard of loquat cheesecake, or loquat sorbet, or ... loquat bread. Loquat Pie. Loquat Compote. (Say that ten times really fast without messing up :D).
I have never heard of loquat flavored anything. Or loquat extract.
But you know. "Even the smallest fruit can change the course of a compote." (Fellowsnip of the Things quote.)
:)
Never even heard of a loquat til just now! My squirrels love unsalted roasted peanuts, blackoil sunflower seeds, strawberries, apples, any nut in the shell, and as a special treat, peanut butter and micro greens. If I don’t feed them fast or often enough, they’ve learned to tear my screens and look indignant while also begging in my windowsills. I shouldn’t even bother calling them my squirrels anymore because I swear, one of them listed me as a local wildlife food pantry in the local paper and it turns out that lo and behold, I’m their human! It’s ok though. The joy I get from watching and interacting with them, the birds, and the occasional raccoon family is immense! I now where does one find a loquat? ❤️ 🐿
l feed the squirrel too and watch how they interact with each other.
A few in particular have gotten used to me now and hang around my doorstep
Priority of interests 3 loquats, 2 camera, 1 almighty peanut. A squirrels life heh or maybe they expect a challenge to justify the new fruit.
The ones in my yard love nuts, seeds, grapes, and strawberries
oooh, i love them ! i have a squirrel that comes everyday for food. at first i thought she was going to attack me, but she was just friendly. lol
I admit - that surprised me at the end.
I was just getting ready to volunteer to eat those loquats myself so they wouldn't go to waste. Yum! :)
nameofthepen Yes, and he seemed a bit excited by the Loquat. Probably the foodie in the bunch!
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MyBackyardBirding - _"the foodie in the bunch"_
Ha hahaaa. True. He may even be back for more. :)
Maybe I'm crazy, but it looks to me like squirrels don't like loquats.
The thing that is surprising is not so much that the squirrels preferred the peanuts to the loquat, it's that they ignored the loquat even when there was no peanut there. I thought animals in the wild had to grab for every morsel they could get. These guys were fussy as hell.
joeschultz2 I think its safe to say they are a bit spoiled. I see them eating loquats out of the tree and the few peanuts i give them supplement their diet - so maybe when they see me they want that peanut. The little buggers will take bites out of all my ripe Mangoes in the summer so I have to pick them green.
BB
Cut them in half so they can smell the aroma.
Looks like peanut wins! Ha ha
that's kinda like offering a 5 year old "Broccoli... or candy bar". :/ They'll pretty much always go for the candy bar.
My neighbor’s palm tree drops a lot of fruit? (pulpy seeds) from their palm tree and the squirrels love them and eat em up! (idk if they’re even any good to eat, lol)
But I’m sure those loquats are much more tasty because they’re real edible fruit!
Cut the fruit in half. The peels are a bit bitter without knowing the flesh tastes sweet.
Dude. You gotta cut it up for them.....🤤
If you peeled them a little they could smell it better maybe
They really aren't interested in those damn loquats. Maybe only as a last resort, when they need some liquid.
How do you get them to get so close to you? Mine have recently discover some of them like red grapes. If i have some left over that are getting kinda soft for ready to turn, i set them out for them. They ate them all. Last year they would not go near them.
Its just a matter of time, first start by throwing them peanuts and they'll gradually warm up to you - but be careful what you wish for, now they follow me around wherever I go in the yard and I better have peanuts!
BB
I had a garden last year and I had a garden this year and each year my friendly little squirrels 5in Total eat my corn before they mature along with my sunflowers. so next year I am planting underground root veggies..
I noticed that some of them mainly the older generation no how to eat chestnuts but the younger generation do not. I was giving them peanuts and I don't think that was doing them any justice because it was some teaching them how to take care of themselves. Right now they're buring all the peanuts and because they are territorial as soon as one buries their nuts the other one comes along and fix it up and steals it LOL these guys are quite the creatures that God gave us that's for sure
They love walnuts the most i think
What you kept for eating
I did a similar test and a chocolate m&m won. Is it safe and ok to feed squirrels peanuts? Chocolate?
Try corn, my squirrels love corn. But they like peanut more.
Leo N
The squirrels around here won't eat a lot of the stuff thats officially listed as 'squirrel friendly food'. The one thing that no squirrel ever turns down, is a peanut!
@@HighlanderNorth1 Agree. Because A Random Squirrel Stole Mine Out Of My Hand. But when I threw a sliced Orange, it said, buh-bye.
Now time for desert! 4:01
I put out veggies, nuts other stuff out every day. Nuts are always #1. They like grapes, apples, carrots, peanuts, bread (not too much) They don't like potatoes, celery or lettuce. Like people some foods better than others, health wise. Nuts better
Man you really had to twist some arms😀
Awesome love squirrel.
No fruit, only protein
Personally my wild squirrels gladly take whole apricots possibly because of how fragrant
The squirrels that visit me prefer dry roasted peanuts to fruit.
Ours wont eat fruit unless it absolutely necessary!
If you slice the apples the squirrels love em!
I love this
Ive offered mine peanuts figs or walnut cranberry bread... peanuts every time they will take apples thou.
Ours don't like fruit and vegetables...
What is a loquat?
It’s the orange fruit
they love walnuts
It’s peanuts, paws down!
Awesome video dude XD
I love this video so much I do same thing in my back yard awww
YOU ~ ROCK ! !
Sooo cute 🤗
I've got a mother squirrel to all she eats is peanut 🥜 and she brings her kid around to they Evan wonder into my house for there nuts 🥜 😃 I love them
Twinkee or peanut
Squirrels prefer walnuts, almonds, pecans and hazelnuts to actually eat which are coincidentally better for them with "good fat" as well as nutritionally better for them while peanuts are the equivalent of hyper-processed foods for humans. Cute video though.
Peanut, man, peanut!!
This is just a guess, but I think they like Peanuts better than loquats.....
Whats a low quad?
loquat a tropical fruit grows in Florida. BB
Cute!
Your heart is in the right place. Just wanted to say according to a web site called "squirrelnutrition.com" peanuts and corn are not good for squirrels.
Right, the peanuts make up a small part of their overall diet. But like humans they have no self control over eating things that are not good for them rather than fresh fruit.
... now, turning to financial news of the day, the Loquat market cratered today on reports of ....
They like fat more than sweets. Once the fatty nuts and seeds are gone they will eat fruit though. Mine like tomatoes, squash, cucumber and apples.
Peanut!
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Peanuts win!!!!!!!!!
but loquats ARE good.
Hilarious
Cut the fruit in half jezus ...this video is killing me
squirrels like to eat meat also as you can see in my video if you like I didn't know it till I saw this one do it in FL
Tender Lovers!!!
The won’t eat pop tarts. Go figure.
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LOL there's always one progressive in every group .
ThE DuCk
Would that be the 1 squirrel walking around, demanding that ALL of the other squirrels recognize ALL of the 31 different squirrel gender pronouns, or the group of masked squirrels, wearing all black, with anarchist and communist flags flying, flipping tree houses over and setting them on fire? Lol. Just kidding. I couldn't resist the social comparison.
AWWW
Peanuts are actually bad for squirrels
Sod healthy I’ll have the nuts that aren’t too good for me or my digestive system 👍🏻
That don't look no Avocado?Dad!
Avoid feeding them peanuts, its bad for them. They will start loosing hair
Lol
I tried feeding a squirrel a 🥜 in my hand but I didn't come up my hand it would just got scared and I threw a peanut and it did go get it
Woow. Mommas got a boyfriend!
No vegan options #nuttyinsperations lol 😂
Wanda Steeves ?? They're all vegan options. Squirrels are vegetarian in the wild, unless starving (in which case they will attempt to eat decomposing meat)