Traces of proteins and the flying squirrel in the early winter

A lot has been going by other proteins, a lot stolen by jays, mice, nutcracker and other granivorous birds, many forgotten and podrasteryano. The narrow tracks of the front legs, broad - from the rear. Their protein while jumping puts forward on the front. Follow to which trees are squirrel tracks. In Siberia, the squirrels are feeding just more willing to pine nuts. We have a pine cone - her main nurse. If the cones are a lot of fruitful year for them, the proteins less running in the snow. They have enough food and trees. Already in February, and then in late January start wedding squirrel game: squirrels jump through the trees one after another. In those years when a lot of bumps, the protein and the cubs will be born more (sometimes 8-10 pieces), and feed them better and more of them survive to the warm season. In good years the number of proteins is rapidly growing. Hunting for them is becoming more profitable. During the harvest year of poor harvest next year. Spruce as if exhausted from the fruiting and seed yields less a year or two. The third year again comes the harvest. Interestingly, the behavior of the protein during crop failure cones. Hunters say that in such years, squirrel tracks in the snow can be seen much more. This is an indication that the protein more digging in the snow, looks for mushrooms under the leaves, she feels them by smell even through the thick snow. Squirrel chews lichens on the trunks, gnaws buds at the ends of spruce branches: cut their sharp incisors of smaller branches and, grasping paws, chew with their kidneys. Most escape it throws. If a spruce forest you see on the snow a lot of fir twigs, you know that squirrels began to starve. Well even if it happens at the end of winter. But sometimes the green litter under the fir trees appears in the December before. This is very bad. Proteins to be hungry. Sometimes proteins in such cases simply go away. One after the other animals fleeing in search of more abundant food. Hungry squirrels run away sometimes quite far away. Such relocation of the animals are well-known northern and Siberian hunters. Sometimes the rescue protein crossbill. Crossbill many drops in the snow cones: vykovyrnet few seeds and dropped cone. Many half-eaten cones lying around everywhere sway - crossbill. Lying in the snow on the ground and not bump dries, it does not scale ottopyrivayutsya and usually seeds in a cone saved until next spring. Here are some uronennye crossbill bumps and useful proteins for the next year, when new buds will not be enough. Hungry squirrels searching for them under the snow, and there could be no seed is not lost: it will vyluscheno clean. True, these bumps, there are other hunters: Seeds of uronennyh crossbill cones and eat the wild mice and voles. They gnaw scales differently than the protein, and the remains of cones can always tell who fed her seeds: crossbill, protein or vole. Very typical for her habit of leaving litter in the same place. This usually occurs at the base of tree trunk, which accumulated a whole bunch of small litter of bright yellow, shaped like a mouse. On this basis the easiest to make sure that somewhere in the immediate vicinity of live flying squirrel.