what do squirrels like to eat?
In their natural habitats tree squirrels eat a variety of foods including fungi, insects, bird eggs and young birds, pine nuts, and acorns, plus a wide variety of other seeds, nuts, dried corn, fruits, twigs, buds, bark, leaves, pine cones, roots, and mushrooms.
Red squirrels eat tree buds and flowers, fleshy fruits, tree sap, bark, insects, and even bird eggs or young snowshoe hares. In the winter, spring, and early summer, they strip bark of trees and eat the parts of the tree that transport nutrients. Red squirrels are energy efficient when foraging.