The SquirrelLand Story

So why does Squirrelland exist? The answer to this question is simply "because it wasn't there!". I was itching to nail up a web-cam but I was loathe to point it at my sleeping dogs or a fish bowl, like the other 1000's of web-cams out there. After battling squirrels who felt the need to empty my wife's bird feeder, I decided that they were probably a good source of entertainment for a webcam. So I dreamed up this Squirrelland idea and built a little town in my back yard. It's an extremely small town (about .00003 square miles), located about 20 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles, just inside the city limits of a town called Newhall in Southern California. The town hosts a single street, Varmint Avenue. The town is home to a dozen or so grey squirrels, some bluejays, a few mourning doves, some finches, nuthatches and sparrows. The town consist of little porcelin, wood and metal structures which are changed from time to time as the residents wear them out. 

Electricity to SquirrelLand comes from a low voltage power supply which provides lights for the city at night and provides the current necessary to run two wireless web-cams during the day. The entire town is revamped as Squirrel destruction dictates and I more or less monkey with the arrangement of the town every day like some sort of obsessed deity.

Like many towns, SquirrelLand pretty much calls it a night at about 6pm, when the main street lights fire up and the residents go off to wherever it is they go at night. The main street remains lit until about 6:30am when the morning sun begins to peer over the horizon. During the hours of 4am to 9pm, the town is broadcast live, every 10 minutes, at  www.Squirrelland.com.