Eric the Viking
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Earlier this week, and fairly early in the day, I found a squirrel's tail in our back lane. No signs of a struggle, no blood, etc., just a tail lying on the ground in plain sight (obviously squirrel though).
When I returned home later in the day it had vanished, so presumably something else found it edible.
We have jackdaws, jays, crows, magpies and even the occasional raven in the area, so no shortage of carrion feeders that might snack on it, but none of them hunt at night.
So what might catch a squirrel but leave the tail behind? Or did something grab the tail and let the rest of the animal escape? I haven't seen a squirrel around for a week or so, avec tail or otherwise, so perhaps it survived but was scared off.
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When I returned home later in the day it had vanished, so presumably something else found it edible.
We have jackdaws, jays, crows, magpies and even the occasional raven in the area, so no shortage of carrion feeders that might snack on it, but none of them hunt at night.
So what might catch a squirrel but leave the tail behind? Or did something grab the tail and let the rest of the animal escape? I haven't seen a squirrel around for a week or so, avec tail or otherwise, so perhaps it survived but was scared off.
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