Up In The Belfry
Am I the only one who gets bat-like vibes from this squirrel I met in the park yesterday? Look at those pointy looking ears, and the way they light up in the sun! He no doubt used his keen sense …...
View Article#48 – An Okie From Muskogee
I don’t travel much, and haven’t ventured outside of the local area in seven years. Thus, the majority…. no, almost every one of my squirrel photos features sciurines from either my neighborhood or...
View ArticleFeeding Time
It’s been four or five years since my backyard oak ruined my old corn feeder by slowly gobbling it up inside its trunk (You can see the remnants of it in the photo above), and in the meantime I’ve just...
View Article#47 – Don’t Eat That!
I spent a few Saturday Squirrel posts over the years covering one of the nastier realities of living in the American Midwest, where sweet gum trees were planted in force during the early part of the...
View ArticleLift The Lid
Well, the squirrels are sure enjoying the new feeder I put out last week… stripping the corn off the cob within hours after I put it out. But this feeder has another element to it that I was hoping to...
View Article#46 – Funny Bunny
Squirrels aren’t the only critters that scamper and traipse through The Nest’s yard. Other than the occasional wandering dog or cat, we’ve got some bunnies that hippity hop through the neighborhood....
View ArticleBatty Redux
Three weeks ago for Saturday Squirrel, I posted the photo above of a squirrel whose backlit pointed ears gave me the impression of bat wings. A few people noticed the nifty ear notch (a park squirrel,...
View Article#45 – Slow Poke
Of all the so-called bad habits squirrels have that have caused them to be slandered as pests by humans, maybe the one that will get people the most upset is their tendency to dig up and devour...
View ArticleEating In
As much of an annual tradition as it is for me to carve a Squirrel O’Lantern every Halloween, it’s also my ritual on the first morning of November to put the pumpkin out by my backyard oak…. not only...
View Article#44 – Look at Me!
The term “photobomb,” referring to the act of someone or something in the background of a photograph intentionally or unintentionally stealing the focus away from the main subject(s), is still pretty...
View ArticleJenny From The Block
Alright, this squirrel’s name probably isn’t Jenny. And even worse, a lot of the people reading this won’t even be familiar with the earworm. But that’s OK, I just needed a snappy title for this photo...
View Article#43 – Jump Around
I don’t think I live in a particularly remarkable area, but I’ve learned over the years that I never know just what I might see when I take a peek out the window. A house on fire. A news crew …...
View ArticleThe Electric Chair
Squirrels and our power supply infrastructure have been an unintended combination that has gone together with results that have been annoying for humans and deadly for squirrels. With the land nowhere...
View Article#42 – Hoard And Hide
Squirrels are notorious scatter hoarders, meaning they gather up all of the food they can find (and aren’t hungry enough to eat, yet) and come up with all kinds of crazy places to stash it for a hard...
View ArticleFresh From The Farm
One side of the walking trail near my house that I frequently use is bordered by a farmer’s field…. which is kind of an odd thing to find in the middle of suburbia, but I guess it slipped through the …...
View Article#41 – Wild Kingdom
While July 6, 2017 will always be a dark day in my life as it was the evening my Dad passed away… before I fully knew what would be in store for me that night, I received a rather welcome … Continue...
View ArticleSquirrel In Trouble
Uh oh! It looks like a poor squirrel may have gotten his head stuck in the hollow of this tree. I’d gladly come up there and save you from your embarrassing dilemma, only I’m not very good at climbing...
View Article#40 – Man Eating Squirrel
One of the interesting things about photography is that while it captures a real life moment, sometimes the interpretation of what that moment is telling can be quite interesting, and not at all what...
View ArticleTail Boner
No, you haven’t stumbled onto the Squirrels Gone Wild website. Hear me out! We’re so used to seeing squirrels with “flexible” tails that, when not lying completely flat behind them, have at least some...
View Article#39 – Watch Your Step
Earlier in this countdown, I featured a squirrel with an obvious cast iron stomach that wasn’t afraid to chew up those spiky sweet gum balls that rain down in torrents from their trees. Now, most...
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