Re: Re: chipmunks and squirrels

Well - that explains why we don't see them in Texas too!!  Red squirrels here, belligerent too.

Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Kitty <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:27:18 -0500 (EST)

>A slight change of topic here, but....
>Growing up in Chicago and Fort Wayne, all I ever saw were golden/reddish
>brown squirrels. Then I saw grey squirrels in Bloomington, IN. And up in
>Guelph ON I saw black squirrels. So I thought the colors were regional
>albeit in an odd sort of way. However, recently right here in Fort
>Wayne, I've begun seeing black squirrels on the Southwest end of town
>where I work, while nothing but the brown ones on the northeast end
>where I live (1/2 hr apart) Is this odd?
>
>What color are your squirrels?
>
>Kitty
>
>-------Original Message-------
>From: Marge Talt <mtalt@hort.net>
>Sent: 02/18/03 12:06 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] chipmunks  was: birds and other critters
>
>> 
>> Well, curiosity finally won and did a little Googling for chippers. 
>Found this Canadian site with good info. plus a map of N. America
>showing the range of the - would you believe - 21 species that live
>on this continent!  
>
>http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/hww-fap.cfm?ID_species=56&lang=e
>
>Map shows why you don't have them, Andrea and why they aren't found
>in S. CA...
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@hort.net
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>> From: Andrea H <hodgesaa@islc.net>
>> 
>> Marge-we don't have chipmunks here, but did when I lived in the
>upper part
>> of the state. So my guess is they stop somewhere mid-South
>Carolina. Don't
>> know why we don't have them here. Too hot?
>
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>If you have weeds, you don't have enough plants.
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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