I know squirrels will take all sorts of stuff up to their nest. I watched them occasionally try to figure out how to get stuff up the tree.These squirrels live in a cemetery and decided the humans put out all that nice nesting material for their benefit.
The flags put out for Memorial Day.
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20090530/NEWS01/905300301
"He plucks them right off," Ceglarek, superintendent of Mount Hope Cemetery in Port Huron, said of a rogue squirrel that is stealing flags. "If I didn't see it, and I didn't follow the squirrel, I never would have believed it.
"But it is a band of tree rodents."
Every Memorial Day, volunteers put small American flags next to grave stones of the about 965 veterans buried at the Krafft Road cemetery.
All the flags were undisturbed during a Mass on Memorial Day. But the next day, cemetery workers noticed the flags were disappearing -- the small, wooden staffs still were in the ground, but Old Glory itself had been removed.
At first, the cemetery's staff was confused. Then, Ceglarek spotted the thief in action.
"It looked like he had a little bandana in his mouth," he said of the squirrel.
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