Wilshire Park Squirrel LbNA #35636 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 30, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Portland |
| County: | Multnomah |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | bedlamite9  |
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| Found by: | dustbunnies |
| Last found: | Mar 29, 2008 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Sep 30, 2007 |
*replaced 3/8/08* :)
The Portland squirrels are definitely out and about for the fall and Wilshire Park is quite the mecca for squirrel activity with its numerous old oak trees dropping their acorns for the winter. Our two dogs (Luca and Lelu) love nothing more than chasing the squirrels through this fourteen-and-a-half acre NE Portland park.
A few fun facts about squirrels:
- A squirrel's brain is about the size of a walnut.
- The average adult squirrel needs to eat about a pound of food a week to maintain an active life.
- Squirrels communicate through a series of chirps. The frequency, and the duration of the notes communicate everything from laughter to alarm. Their frequency range is normally between .01 KHz. and 10 KHz. (kilohertz). These sounds when used in conjunction with tail gestures, form the basis for squirrel communication.
- A squirrel will break the shell of a nut with its teeth, then clean the nut by licking it or rubbing on its face before it is buried. This action applies a scent to the nut which helps the squirrel find it later, even under a foot of snow.
- The squirrel's erratic path while crossing a street is an attempt to confuse the oncoming vehicle... thereby causing it to change direction. This is obliviously the squirrels biggest, and often last mistake.
- A squirrel can fall more than one hundred feet without hurting itself.
- A scientific study conducted in Maastricht, Belgium proved that squirrels actually enjoy goading dogs, and let themselves get chased for the adrenaline rush.
To the letterbox:
Enter Wilshire Park from the north at the corner of NE 35th Place and Skidmore. Take the paved path south through the middle of the park past the small playground. Look to you right for a blue drinking fountain. At the drinking fountain look west toward the Wilshire Park playfields and NE 33rd Avenue. Spot the small evergreen tree that looks so out of place among this park of old giants. Travel across the grass to the tree. Facing the tree and looking toward the playfields and NE 33rd Ave, turn 90 degrees left. Take 18 steps to a large evergreen tree. The Wilshire Park Squirrel is hidden at the base of this tree in a small hole behind a white stone.
Hide it better than you found it.
First finder prize!
The Portland squirrels are definitely out and about for the fall and Wilshire Park is quite the mecca for squirrel activity with its numerous old oak trees dropping their acorns for the winter. Our two dogs (Luca and Lelu) love nothing more than chasing the squirrels through this fourteen-and-a-half acre NE Portland park.
A few fun facts about squirrels:
- A squirrel's brain is about the size of a walnut.
- The average adult squirrel needs to eat about a pound of food a week to maintain an active life.
- Squirrels communicate through a series of chirps. The frequency, and the duration of the notes communicate everything from laughter to alarm. Their frequency range is normally between .01 KHz. and 10 KHz. (kilohertz). These sounds when used in conjunction with tail gestures, form the basis for squirrel communication.
- A squirrel will break the shell of a nut with its teeth, then clean the nut by licking it or rubbing on its face before it is buried. This action applies a scent to the nut which helps the squirrel find it later, even under a foot of snow.
- The squirrel's erratic path while crossing a street is an attempt to confuse the oncoming vehicle... thereby causing it to change direction. This is obliviously the squirrels biggest, and often last mistake.
- A squirrel can fall more than one hundred feet without hurting itself.
- A scientific study conducted in Maastricht, Belgium proved that squirrels actually enjoy goading dogs, and let themselves get chased for the adrenaline rush.
To the letterbox:
Enter Wilshire Park from the north at the corner of NE 35th Place and Skidmore. Take the paved path south through the middle of the park past the small playground. Look to you right for a blue drinking fountain. At the drinking fountain look west toward the Wilshire Park playfields and NE 33rd Avenue. Spot the small evergreen tree that looks so out of place among this park of old giants. Travel across the grass to the tree. Facing the tree and looking toward the playfields and NE 33rd Ave, turn 90 degrees left. Take 18 steps to a large evergreen tree. The Wilshire Park Squirrel is hidden at the base of this tree in a small hole behind a white stone.
Hide it better than you found it.
First finder prize!