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Old 09-10-2018, 07:17 AM   #46
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Question Red Squirrels—Better Swimmers?

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Originally Posted by ursa minor View Post
Funny, I saw a gray squirrel swimming towards the island last Friday while I was cleaning the boat. It's easily a quarter mile swim, he looked pretty tired. We never saw anything but red squirrels and chipmunks out here until the last year or so.
The last "swimming squirrel" I can recall on this forum was a Red Squirrel that struck out for a shoreline that was a ½-mile distant!

That squirrel returned to discouraging warnings from squirrel-mates, but how did that squirrel find the same shoreline tree he'd left three months earlier?
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