Beautiful Baby Squirrel Food!

Something dropped from a tree at my feet!

Out in the complex where we stay, I was out with my camera as usual. A pod, or nut from a tree dropped down at my feet and as I looked up, I saw a lovely sight. Jacaranda trees grow all over South Africa and they are absolutely beautiful trees.
Let me show you who dropped the nut!

Bam! A very young squirrel looked down at me!

There was another one eating away at a nut!

Jacaranda tree flower with a dangling nut next to it.

I found this photo on Google to show you Jacaranda trees lining a road in the city of Pretoria in South Africa.
Source; blogspot.com

Of course the squirrels would love my peanuts more and I dropped a handful for them.
The one at the front seemed to be a bit older than the small one at the back.

And of course mommy was hanging around keeping an eye on her kids!

Some more information on the famous Jacaranda!

"The blue jacaranda has been cultivated in almost every part of the world where there is no risk of frost; established trees with the protection of hard wood can however tolerate brief spells of temperatures down to around −7 °C (19 °F).[3] In the US, 48 km (30 mi) east of Los Angeles where winter temperatures can dip to −12 °C (10 °F) for short several-hour periods, the mature tree survives with little or no visible damage. Even when young trees are damaged by a hard frost and suffer die back, they will often rebound from the roots and grow in a shrub-like, multi-stemmed form.[3]
In the United States, the Jacaranda is grown very extensively in California, in southwestern Arizona, southeast Texas and Florida.[4] In California they are grown most extensively in Southern California, but are commonly planted as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area and along the frost-free coastal regions of Northern California.[4][5] In California flowering and growth will be stunted if grown directly on the coast, where a lack of heat combined with cool ocean winds discourages flowering.[3]
In Europe it is grown on the entire Mediterranean coast of Spain (it is very noticeable in the Valencian community, the Balearic Islands and Andalusia with especially large specimens present in Valencia, Alicante and Seville, and usually with earlier flowering than in the rest of Europe), in the southern part of Portugal (very noticeable in Lisbon), southern Italy (in Naples and Cagliari it's quite easy to come across beautiful specimens), southern Greece (noticeable in Athens) and on the Islands of Malta and Cyprus.[citation needed] It was introduced to Cape Town by Baron von Ludwig in about 1829. It is regarded as an invasive species in parts of South Africa and Australia, the latter of which has had problems with the Blue Jacaranda preventing growth of native species. In other parts of Africa jacarandas are especially present in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe."

Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda_mimosifolia

And so Baron von Ludwig introduced Jacaranda trees into South Africa in the year 1829 and to this day the squirrels thank him for it Lol

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