# Squirrels on my windshield? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376 "2009-01-15T03:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376/1 "2009-01-15T03:25:15Z")
As my car sat outside during work today, maybe half an inch of snow fell on it. After work, I saw something I’ve never seen on my car before… tracks. All over the hood, and more strangly still, all over the windshield. And I mean nealy every square inch. I’m not an expert in tracks, but they were surely way too small for a rabbit, and too big (I think) for birds – anyway, they weren’t in pairs like a hopping bird would make. So I figure one or more squirrels, but hey, I could be wrong. So what’s the deal, I thinks. It’s bitterly cold today, there were weather alerts that the windchill mught get to -40 at times, so maybe one was attracted to the engine heat? Ok, maybe, but I didn’t see any pressed down areas like a little body had laid down, just feet marks. OTOH, maybe that argues against squirrels – would there be little belly dragging marks from a squirrel? I dunno. And, AFAICT, it didn’t ever lose it’s traction on the windshield – no little slidey marks showing a slip down the slope of the windshield. And no ice under the snow after I brushed it off – I thought maybe some frost build up had allowed a grip, but no, the glass was clear and smooth as… glass. So I may be left forever curious as to why my car (and one other next to it, I noticed) was a critter playground today. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376/2 "2009-01-15T14:20:39Z")
I have a different story about squirrel on the windshield. I was sitting at a traffic light on a very windy day a few years ago and then, just out of no where a squirrel fell onto the hood of my car. It jump up, made a dash towards me onto my windshield and then up over the car. I’m guessing that it was trying to cross the street via the power lines - I see them do that here pretty often - and lost its footing in a gust of wind. I don’t think it was windy enough to have been blown from one of the tree. Startled the bejeezus out of me. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376/3 "2009-01-15T20:45:42Z")
Sounds like a drunken squirrel orgy!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376/4 "2009-01-15T22:44:24Z")
At least they didn’t decide to climb under the car into the engine. We lost several kittens that way when I was a kid.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrels-on-my-windshield/481376/5 "2009-01-16T00:27:40Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > At least they didn’t decide to climb under the car into the engine…: Maybe they will fall out in the spring.