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Brown Eyed Squirrel
While going through my most recent batch of squirrel photos on Monday, I was instantly struck by something very unusual about the pictures I took of one particular squirrel that morning. Of the...
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Stumped
You’re probably tired of hearing about stumping during this election year, so today I’m going to talk about stumping as it relates to squirrels. See this light-tailed fellow I captured while I was out...
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Thank Goodness It’s Saturday!
Longtime readers of The Nest know I sprinkle my posts with a liberal dose of self depreciation… often referring to my content with words that would have left the bad taste of soap in your mouth had...
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Geronimo!
Every once in a while when I’m shooting action shots (When AREN’T squirrels being active?) of my backyard critters, I’ll get a blurry shot of the squirrel in mid jump that makes up for its lack of...
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Tunnel Vision
Like your cats, squirrels are also quite curious creatures… constantly poking their nutty noses in all kinds of places they probably don’t belong. The squirrels around my parts are all arboreal,...
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Body Modification For Squirrels
I was going to use a series of photos I took of this park squirrel to discuss a different point for this week’s Saturday Squirrel, but it was impossible for me to look at them and not notice something...
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Ody Day
It’s Picture Day Wednesday at The Nest again, and this time there will be lots of photos to force you to look at share with you, and they all have one thing in common… my handsome tuxedo cat Ody, who …...
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The Chase
Squirrels chase boys chase squirrels. I haven’t been taking many fresh squirrel photos this summer, so I dug deep into the archive this week to find this pair of critters involved in that time honored...
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Is It Autumn Yet?
Let’s face it… this summer sucks. The heat is bad enough, but with rain almost literally every other day since the start of July, it’s also been muggy as hell and just plain miserable… at least in my...
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Obstructed View
Unlike the trees in a child’s drawing or a happy little Bob Ross painting, the ones in real life do not just have a trunk with a canopy of leaves on top of it. There are a lot of small … Continue...
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Unpretty?
For all of the reasons people have to dislike the pest-like nature of squirrels, their one saving grace has always been the fact that they are so adorable that their cuteness can even melt the most...
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Underneath It All
Today’s post takes a revealing look at the soft underbelly of the squirrel kingdom…. quite literally. I’m not sure this furry little friend of mine was quite pleased when he peered down under the...
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You Talkin’ To Me!?!?
Thanks to an unexpected visit from the mother squirrel Thursday morning, I was in the right place at the right time to capture some absolutely fantastic shots of one of my local squirrels who seemed to...
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Barker Beauty
This is the same excitable young squirrel I featured in last Saturday’s post that captured your hearts with its adorable face and fiercely swishing tail. Before I caught his attention with my...
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Waiting For The Fall
Although the calendar said that Autumn officially began on Thursday, from an actual meteorological standpoint, the calendar is a big freaking liar. I take time off almost every September because while...
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Bath Time
After my next door neighbors (blessedly) moved out five years ago, I took it upon myself the following summer to confiscate the birdbath that had been sitting in their front yard. It wasn’t like...
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Mr. Manners
While I’d like to give an eloquent dissertation on the photo of this week’s adorable Saturday Squirrel… I was always told it was not polite to talk with a mouth full of nuts. I apologize for any...
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How Much Is That Kitty In The Window?
It’s time for your weekly Wednesday dose of The Nest’s patented shitty photography with another episode of Picture Day. Last week I promised you an interesting story, and it starts off with the photo...
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Mr. Peanut
Every once in a while I get on a shelled peanut kick and will buy the occasional bag at Mecca to snack on while I waste my life away on the internet. Usually, by the time I get to the … Continue...
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Greasy Grimy Pumpkin Guts
It’s that time of the year again when The Nest gets out our finest cutlery and our most absorbent Band Aids and carves up another award winning squirrel o’lantern to join the So’L Hall of Fame!...
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