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Some comedy in the tree stand

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BowEd:
Well this is about squirrels.Don't have a comedy thread but this is related to hunting I suppose.At least it goes along with what happens while hunting.Most times I'm watching squirrels do their busy thing around me while in the stand.I've had them jump from a tree next door onto my hung bow and onto the tree I'm in and generally many times very close within reach of me.This paticular squirrel took my encounter with him a bit farther.There is a decent sized hickory in front of my stand around a foot thick and 40 feet tall only 6 to 8 feet away off to the side to my left a little.I see this squirrel climb up that tree to about 3 to 4 feet above me on the side of that tree.I'm sitting down at the time.I see by his focus and body language he's fixing to jump onto my tree I'm in.My quick calculations tell me he's going to land on my lap I think anyway.No sooner then did I say DON"T YOU DO IT!!! he jumps!!Right on top of my head and onto the tree I'm in.Using my head as a spring board to get there.It does'nt seem to alarm him any and I just sat still myself.No harm done and we continued to do our thing....lol.
Last year a chickadee sat on my broadhead for quite sometime 2' in front of me before finally moving on.
I'm sure there are others have had things happen to them with wildlife while in the stand too.

bjrogg:
Last year I was sitin my stump blind. The chipmunks like hanging out in the root balls of the old stumps. I could see one coming towards me under the leaves. He got to my boot and climbed to my knee. I moved and he realized what he was climbing on and proceeded to scamper up another tree and scolded me. Bjrogg

BowEd:
Yes I could imagine that happening.The tree squirrels here sometimes scold me for quite some time too.I've only seen a few chipmunks here.Mostly ones that the cat catches.

Pat B:
At the hunting club I used to be a member of in GA. We had most of the pines harvested and the area was sprayed by airplane to eliminate unwanted trees and undergrowth before replanting with pines. It was understood that all the hardwoods(oake, etc) would be protected but the wind picked up and a bunch of oaks were killed.
Two years later I was hunting along the edge of newly planted pines and the other mature hardwoods, the dead oaks were slowly falling apart. That year we had a bumper crop of red and white oak acorns. Also, we had a bumper crop of redheaded woodpeckers, not just a bunch but hundreds. The woodpeckers were collecting acorns from the live oak trees and placing them in the rotted standing trunks of the dead oak trees for use later.
 There were a few squirrels trying to get to the acorns but the redheaded woodpeckers would attack the squirrels every time one would climb a live oak tree. My whole afternoon was spent laughing my butt off at the antics and needless to say not much deer activity took place in that area that afternoon.

bradsmith2010:
I wasnt in a tree stand but was standing still,, a bear was going by,, and then turned right too me  bout 15 yards,,,, well I got a bit scared he was coming rigiht at me and didnt see me,, I put an arrow on the bow and he heard me move and turned and ran,,, glad he didnt jump on me like a squirrel,,,

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