Lay Squirrel Lay
To go with the theme of today’s photo countdown entry, I encountered a couple of squirrels on my visit to the park this week who apparently thought it would be a great idea to lay out in the middle of...
View ArticleBetcha Can’t Eat Just One
Last year when I showed off my photos of a squirrel delightfully licking the fake cheese product out of a discarded package of dipping sticks, it was noted in the comments that even our animal friends’...
View ArticleHot In Herre
While summer’s been kind enough to ease up a bit on my neck of the woods the past week or so, it was pretty damned hot and humid from late May through the middle of this month. Like any other …...
View ArticleThe Seven Day Itch
Early Spring was cold and damp, and then early summer was hot and muggy. The result has unfortunately been a banner year for bugs… and in particular, fleas. They are everywhere, and it’s been almost...
View ArticleUnder The Rainbow
Remember those long ago days on the school playground? All of those silly games you and your friends would play during recess… like freeze tag, kickball, handclap chants and of course Red Rover?...
View ArticleSilver Squirrel
You would think that a grey squirrel wouldn’t have to worry about getting old and turning gray… I mean, he’s already gray. That’s not entirely true, though… grey squirrels actually have a lot of brown...
View ArticleHold Your Head Up
Because I haven’t taken many new squirrel photos this year, I’ve found myself digging through the old archives to uncover some lost gems that got lost in the shuffle without ever making it on my blog....
View ArticleClaws
Just how do squirrels get such a firm grip on the bark of a tree to so easily scale and descend them? Well, get a good look at the talons on this tree climbing squirrel! Freddy Krueger didn’t have...
View ArticleWell Fed
The corn cob feeder on my backyard oak tree that is a fixture of many of the squirrel photos you’ve seen here over the years was one of the first things I bought for my new home when I moved … Continue...
View ArticleThe Butcher Of Wilson Park
I’ve posted several photos before of the local park squirrels sporting rather stylish and definitely unnatural notches cut into their ears. While squirrels are quite scrappy and will sometimes leave a...
View ArticleDonkey Kick
This mostly wordless Saturday Squirrel photo is brought to you by the family of sciuridae, making the world a much more entertaining place for the past million or so years… Have a hee haw great...
View ArticleEat Your Greens
Veggies are the bane of almost every child, who’d rather eat the same yummy junk food their parents chow down on while they think the kids aren’t watching. Those green plant products may be good for...
View ArticleCrafty Squirrel
This squirrel I saw at the park last month was playing with a stick that was snapped in half. Maybe he was divining for water? Getting ready to go cross country skiing? Was making a set of crutches...
View ArticleLet’s Have Fun!
“Hey, Ralph!” “Huh? Who’s calling me?” “It’s me, your best pal George! Come on, let’s go chase each other around the park!” “I don’t know, George. I’m kinda busy counting my nuts for the winter,...
View ArticleBright Eyed And Bushy Tailed
Here’s a random cute squirrel I found in my archive to present for this week’s Saturday Squirrel since I didn’t get time to create my normally (cough, hack) thoughtful, entertaining and educational SS...
View ArticleWild Hair, Don’t Care
Since we got a small coating of that dreaded white stuff last night (One of our earliest snows I can remember), I went back to January 2014 in my squirrel archive looking for this week’s Saturday...
View ArticleThe Cold November Snow
After getting teased with a couple “blink and you’d miss them” snow events earlier in the week, Wednesday evening into Thursday morning brought us our first real snow of the season… and our first...
View ArticleTake The Money And Run
In an effort to attract the squirrels to come out into the cold, fluffy snow and play so I could get some picture last week… I threw out several handfuls of peanuts as well as a fresh ear of squirrel …...
View ArticleDeath From Above
Much like children in a cafeteria line, squirrels aren’t always on their best behavior when there’s tasty chow involved. And there’s no adult monitor in the sciurine world to keep the peace, either....
View ArticleMinding The Nuts
Geez, Mr. Squirrel! What’s gotten into you? Out in public… in broad daylight… doing…. that? For shame!!! Why would you ever do such a thing? Oh…… OK. That sounds like a satisfactory explanation...
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