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Red Squirel in Larch


Red Squirel in Larch

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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Ah, now I see! Great photo. What a lovely sight.

23 Oct, 2009

 

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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