Such a little butterball

but a lot more difficult to put one down.

It's nice to be able to get close to wildlife though. Around here you almost have to shoulder the deer out of the way they're so tame.

A wee bit of nature at our busy intersection.

get out there and build him an exercise circuit!!!

But I'm not sure how hot the property management company would be on that

Thanks for posting.

I had one, too. I put corn out for the squirrels & a couple of summers ago, one got really fat. One morning there wasn't any corn out yet and he actually came up to the sliding glass door & peered inside, like, "Hello? Where's mah food?!"

Makes me laugh

A hummingbird where I used to live would do that, fly up to the window and say, Hey what!!

And completely nonplussed that I was less than two feet away.

He just bulked up for those long winter nights

Squiggely squwurl.

We live in a former "prairie" west of Sacramento and of the squirrel family I had only seen ground squirrels, popping up and scurrying in fields. Then last year a tree squirrel found its way into our back yard and beat a hasty retreat up the Virginia creeper vine to an eave when our dog appeared at the back door. More recently a lone tree squirrel, probably the same one, was in our neighbor's maple tree and in the alley...I think he might have a nook in someone's garage where he stores black and English walnuts, almonds, and pecans from neighborhood trees.



If you want to see some interesting bi-and tri-colored squirrels from Nepal, India, S.E. Asia, and Indonesia do an image search for "Asian giant squirrels". There is a great photo of a gliding Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel in the Qinling Mountains of Central China among the photos, too.

He is a fairly regular visitor but he doesn't get close like Horace.

I checked out those squirrels, pretty cool.

I have nothing but a bunch of fat squirrels running around my yard and feeders. You know they're fat when guest comment on them.

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He even liked my visitors



Visitor fighting over a peanut!



Squirrels a little shyer -

so let them do a pre-clean on my dishes



gotta keep an eye on them squirrels tho

they'll steal anything!





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I had a chipmunk bite me once, and it wasn't fun. Bled like crazy! They have sharp little teeth. (Or big teeth----sure seemed that way.)

Cute little bugger.

food place?

That little squirrel is a bit chubbo! Maybe s/he's ready for hibernation.

put it in your palm.

I have even given up trying to keep them from the bird feeders. I just feed them too. Fox squirrels and Gray squirrels here.