acorn madness

Maybe it's the season, the end-of-summer panic, but the squirrels who frequent the oak tree outside our living room have been acting particularly squirrelly, as of late. Lots of chattering and branch shaking, and rather more banging on the third-floor fire escape than you'd expect from what are, after all, little rodents with big fluffy tails. The other morning, one actually peered in the window to see what we were doing.