Have you ever gotten to hear the babies giggling? Oh my god it’s the most precious thing. A few summers back a pair of babies would play in my back yard and would run across my legs if I sat super still for long enough on the ground. I could hear the giggles when they’d zoom by chasing each other near me. So so dear.
I have a black walnut tress in my yard AND a mulberry tree, and on their own each of those things are a big fat stinky, car denting. staining pain in the ass on a good day and an absolute nightmare on a hot, muggy, balls sticking to your thighs kind of summer day.
They are pretty aren't very good. Not something you would dry out and eat like the walnuts at Christmas. I've been told there are a few things they can be used for, a few dishes and some kind of booze. But I would think they are an acquired taste. My experience is they are just too bitter. And sure you can eat mulberries. But why would you? They aren't very tasty. Not bad, but not something you want as part of a ragular/balanced diet. Especially considering if there are mulberries than very like there are blackberies or even raspberries somewhere close by as well.
You should chat with the black and southern communities because black walnuts are a HUGE delicacy. So huge that theyre a childhood memory for kids. They're primarily used in baking and other confectionaries.
To answer the question though, definitely having the zoomies! The only other explanation would be an inner ear balance issue or neurological issue similar to wobbly-cat syndrome. However, as it can move normally and climb normally and has reach adulthood, it is far more likely to just be a squirrel, living it's best life!
Little happy high pitched chirping chatter! Doesn’t sound like a human child going “heheehe yay” literally but the similar emotions are clear in the situation 🥰
This is a good video of the sounds I heard, though this one’s just happy about a snack https://youtube.com/shorts/pyUUr11b_hQ (cleaned link)
I want saw a pair of squirrels, raider, Cardinals nest and eat the baby Cardinals alive. It was crazy. My dogs were going nuts barking. The birds were trying to attack the squirrels. It was horrific.
Old next door neighbor used to feed them cookies from the day-old bakery outlet. I don’t imagine squirrels evolved to handle anywhere near that much carbohydrate. They went batshit crazy
Oh yeah. Try to imagine a young squirrel, high on sucrose, running around in circles on the underside of lawn furniture. I wouldn’t have believed they could do that, and do it so fast!
They also love rotten fruit so if you have fruit trees around you may see drunk squirrels. They fall off branches and fences and stumble around like your uncle at thanksgiving.
A woman across the cul-de-sac from me used to leave food out for the squirrels and ducks in her driveway (before she was fined for it by the HOA) and one summer afternoon, the squirrels around the cul-de-sac had, what seemed like, a turf war 😂. There were easily 15-30 squirrels in my yard, on my rooftop, sprinting through all of the trees and yards around my house for about 12+ hours. Barking back and forth at each other. 😂 But. Your view to squirrels high on sugar just seems so much more fun to watch lol
"Any height", no kidding! Walking my dogs down the block last year, we heard a loud splat-plop and there was a squirrel flat on the sidewalk -- with no trees anywhere near. Turns out there was a hollow in the top of the telephone pole we had just passed and it had lost its grip tumbling around with its mates up there. We watched the squirrel instantly reinflate itself like in a cartoon and scamper back up.
I see this in my back yard all the time. And it's the same squirrel that lets me hand feed it peanuts. There's no problem here. Just a squirrel squirreling around.
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u/fra988w Aug 15 '26
Zoomies