Sexy Times
Have you ever taken a photo before and not realized just what you had until you went to upload it to the computer (Or got the print back from the Fotomat in the olden days)? Sure, we’ve all had that …...
View ArticleThe Grillmaster
I took advantage of a beautiful sunny morning Thursday to replenish my squirrel photo archive at the local park. But I have yet to comb through those photos and process them so they look decent for my...
View ArticleKiss It Winter!
It’s been a very strange and wacky winter for almost everyone… and while I’m not generally one of those who’s ever happy to see Spring roll around, I would like to officially express my sentiments to...
View ArticleLook Ma! No Hands!
Or maybe that should be no paws? Either way, I was thrilled to see I’d caught this squirrel in “mid-hop” darting up this tree, creating the illusion that he’s just suspended there in midair without...
View ArticleCat Napping
It’s Picture Day Wednesday….. and yes, we will still have Picture Day at The Nest. I’m not shitcanning it while I’m doing the A to Z thing on Tuesdays. That challenge has me digging into Photobucket...
View ArticleNews Flash!
DATELINE: NESTVILLE PARK Park rangers are advising citizens of Nestville to avoid the area around its local park due to the overwhelming number of small animal attacks that have been reported by...
View ArticleBlack Cats Matter
Friday’s here again, and much to the dismay (or perhaps delight) of my shelf critters, they will once again have to take a back seat to another piece of inspired inspiration that was sent to me for...
View ArticleBloomin’ Squirrel
You can tell Springtime is here by the sight of this squirrel blooming in a tree. Errrrr, the blooms exploding around this squirrel in a tree. I thought this photo I got at the park last month was...
View ArticleCurb Appeal
Just because we here at The Nest aren’t big fans of Better Homes and Gardens and have that front yard that manages to devalue an entire neighborhood’s worth of homes doesn’t mean that we can’t...
View ArticleWalking On Air
If you’ve paid attention to squirrels, you know they don’t get around like most ordinary mammals do. You’ll never see a squirrel just walking from Point A to Point B….. well, usually you won’t. While...
View ArticleKing Of The Hill
Humans aren’t the only ones foolish enough to make a mountain out of a molehill. I’m sure this squirrel feels quite accomplished to have reached the summit of this dirt mound at the park… looking out...
View ArticleThat Look
Having taken a lot of pictures of squirrels in trees over the past few years, I am more than used to sights like the one you see in today’s featured photo. Since the squirrels of my local park are not...
View ArticleYou Never Bring Me Flowers
I made an impromptu trip to the park yesterday to do something I haven’t done much this year…. take more squirrel pictures! While the conditions weren’t quite ideal with the in-and-out sun as well as...
View ArticleCheese Please!
Nature generally provides squirrels with enough flora-manufactured munchies to keep them from starving to death in their own nests. These foods are normally produced in such abundance, that the...
View ArticleEats Shoots And Leaves
That famous language arts mnemonic about the importance of proper comma usage apparently applies to more than just pandas these days. I caught this guy last week in my front yard tree enjoying nothing...
View ArticleDon’t Stand So Close To Me
There are close up photos that are taken with the help of powerful lenses that can be found on most any camera these days…. and then there are photos where no extra zoom is needed because the subject...
View ArticleYou’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Smoking cigarettes is no longer the cool thing that was seen as ubiquitous in society as little as three to four decades ago. Even in some of the most conservative states, there are usually more...
View ArticleThe Puppetmaster
This is a photo of the same squirrel I was able to get such an extreme close up shot of which I featured just a couple weeks ago. After he spotted me invading his personal space, he moved up into …...
View ArticleEat, Sleep, Prey
While I was waiting to be picked up by my Mom and sister for my weekly trek to see Dad in the hospital Thursday (Not fully realizing at the time what the day would have in store), the “Squirrel Alarm”...
View ArticleSelf Service
We’ve all seen animals use their much more limber physiology to orally groom themselves in rather private places before. As more civilized and spinally challenged humans, we tend to look on at this...
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