Seems to be missing this year. I think a hawk got it but it might have been an owl or even the bald eagle. But this particular squirrel had learned over four or five years to peel the sweet skin off the kumquat and eat it instead of the sour center.
But this has is caused me to think about Gophers as well, and why gopher poison is designed to fail and is simply a money making scam by the chemical companies praying on your need for instant gratification.
If you kill the adult gopher in a particular area, all the remaining tunnels are open and available for the next juvenile that pops onto the scene. The entire network.
If you teach the adult gophers not to come into your orchard, then the next year it won’t come into your orchard. And the year after, and the year after, and it will defend its territory from the youngsters that don’t know not to come into your orchard.
Stop killing everything you believe is in your way and live with the world my friends
Bob