Rufus, a Canada six-month-old gosling likes to collect items left on the trail in Spring Lake Park by humans. So far he has found a red filmy scarf, two blue paper plates, a golden paper cup and 4 acorns. He is attracted to things that have interesting shapes and colors. He hides these favored items in a cardboard box that was left by a family who enjoyed a lunch in in the park where Rufus lives with his mother and father and sisters. Someone else enjoys the acorns that he found and the story is about this, introducing Squeaky the Squirrel.