Red Squirel in Larch
By Greenthumb
- 23 Oct, 2009
- 13 likes
It should be hibernating by now, but I believe it took residence in the larch for food. It was snapping off twigs and eating the node where the needles sprout. Very interesting, didn't mind me at all.
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so cute GT
23 Oct, 2009
Great that you got close enough to get a pic, and observe. :-)
24 Oct, 2009
Thank you guys. It just ignored me and kept at its business. Just four feet above my head. I watched for a while and have too many photos if that could be true. Those days where it gets warm enough for him to wake up in winter, I imagine he just crawls out and feasts on a few more twigs. A perfect territory.
24 Oct, 2009
Yes, guess that a meal was more on his mind than you, watching! Here, it is almost impossible to get so close, for so long, to Red Squirrels, in the wild, to get a pic. Gr8!!
24 Oct, 2009
Love how the needles glow here Joseph!
24 Oct, 2009
Brill photo
24 Oct, 2009
Thank you. The Red is rare to see during hibernation but we have this freak warmth that keeps getting them back up. I don't think he was completely awake either. :-)
The sun was just perfect Tracy. I couldn't get myself away from these glowing trees.
24 Oct, 2009
Know what you mean about being attracted to the light!!!!
24 Oct, 2009
They were spectacular that day. I'd have cocooned myself in them. :-)
25 Oct, 2009
oh lovely!!!!
25 Oct, 2009
Thanks Aleyna.
25 Oct, 2009
I am enjoying all of your photo's of this superb fall light..it is such a perfect slant these days...what a smart little guy...glad for him that he has found such a perfect home...
27 Oct, 2009
Thank you Cat. This guy was really toughing it, if living on this huge smorgasborg could be called toughing it. We've got real slanted light all day now, almost to day long sunrise/sunset again already.
27 Oct, 2009
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Ah, now I see! Great photo. What a lovely sight.
23 Oct, 2009