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Published: 2017-05-16 14:06:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1650; Favourites: 274; Downloads: 0
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Speaking of squirrels!This happy little fellow turned up in the garden the other day and barely escaped being captured. There's a story there, yes, and you can now read it here:
The Happy Squirrel Story time, dear watchers!
I keep a trusty bird feeder out on the lawn and the other day I just happened to look out the kitchen window and I saw this!
This cutie was munch-munch-munching away like crazy. Just stuffing her face with sunflower seeds.
So of course I ran for the camera and had fun snapping some "Zomg, there's actually a squirrel in the garden!" photos.
She was very, very watchful and looking around all the time while some of the small birds actually tried to chase her away (poor thing).
Such a beauty! Just look at those ear tufts! So looong.
But after a while I started to think to myself: Exa
In short: Gizmo and Oliver were after it, but it took refuge high up in a wild cherry tree and I could get some very pretty shots of it, if I may say so myself. This one is my favourite.
(Everything becomes so much better when flowers are involved, right?)
I've actually been dying to upload this photo, but I've been poorly for a week and basically too feeble to deal with . . . most things.
Today is better though! Yay! Related content
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Thank you! I'm happy you think so!
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Hehehe, you bet! Such a racket.
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This is such a great shot! What a sweet face.
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Aww, thank you! I love those chubby cheeks, of sorts. Really looks like she's smiling.
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Oh, you throwing some slack at me, bro? :runs to tree and tries to climb tree: :squirrel ''giggles'' at the sight of me falling, and runs up the tree more: WHY YOUUUUUU! And also, more ear-tipped red squirrels! I already seen three before this one.
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This one isn't ear-tipped, there's just a branch in the way of that one ear.
In fact, she had very nice tufts on both ears. Same squirrel:
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Oh, why did I say ear-tipped? But I agree, she has cute ear tufts.
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I'm running to your next submission
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Aww, you are so kind.
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Yes, and I hope she got scared enough to not come back.
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Omg! Is this a red squirrel? They are so adorable! ._.
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Yes, it is!
We only have red squirrels in Sweden.
(Which is probably a good thing, judging by the things I've read about grey squirrels in the UK.)
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That's so awesome! We only have grey and black ones here. 
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Yeah, in the UK it is bad because the greys threaten the survival of the reds. The grey are almost twice as big as the red and takes all the food, pretty much. It was introduced to the country because of its fur (of course), but that's never a good idea, as history has so often shown.
So I'm very happy we don't have grey squirrels in Sweden. Only the smaller red one, as it should be.
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Oh wow, I didn't know this! I wish I could see a red squirrel someday. They're absolutely beautiful. c:
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Aww hes a cutie and I am glad they didnt get him, hes too cute. This is a great shot of him in the tree. Its perfect with the flowers. I think it would have been a great shot still even if it didnt have the flowers, he has such a cute look on his face. 
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Thank you, I'm much better now. Feels so much easier. 
And I do love squirrels!
I looked at the other photos I got of this one and I now think it's a female and that she has babies somewhere because I can see her teats in one photo and they're quite swollen. So she probably has lots of little mouths to feed out in the forest. Thank the heavens Gizmo and Oliver didn't catch her!
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I am glad that your feeling better
baby squirrels. Thank the heavens that they didnt find
her I would feel so sad if the babies were left motherless.
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Your wonderful art has been placed in our Featured folder . Congratulations!
Ancient--One
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Many thanks! I feel so honoured.
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Very pretty shot with the blossom. 
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Bad bad cats !
Hope you're better now, take care of yourself
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Haha, yes, the cats are very, very bad! But the squirrel got away, at least. I ran out to chase the cats away. (And take photos.)
I'm better too, thank you.
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Good news, for you and for the squirrel
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Yes, I suspect the squirrel has babies to feed this time of year so I hope it can stay away from the cats.
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If you put a collar with a bell, they are spotted more easily by wildlife (careful, the collar have to be elasticised cause your cats are going in forest place )
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Yes, I know.
It's a good idea in theory, but my cats hate collars.
Even if I could get them to accept them I think it would get very expensive pretty fast though. My neighbour's cat wears a collar and he drops his collars in my garden very often. At the most I've returned 7 collars to my neighbour. And he has only one cat! Imagine how many my four could drop all over the place...
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I've an idea
No but under the bird feeder, you can put little ropes with bells
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*going through old comments*
You know, this was a really great idea! I've hanged bells on the bird feeder and it really helps a lot. The cats have stopped the jumping.
So thank you so, so much! It was a brilliant solution you came up with!
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