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I watched a red squirrel on a tree branch eating what looked like a cob of corn. But, this couldn’t be correct for, given the squirrel’s size, this was a tiny object. Doug Thorburn told me, “I think it is a seed pod (or strobile) from a birch tree.\u00a0 These seeds will be ripe in the fall, and are dispersed by winter storms.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

A red squirrel eats a seed pod from a birch tree.
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