Normally the sound of chattering makes it easy to locate a squirrel, but it wasn’t the chatter which drew my attention to this squirrel and I would have missed him if it wasn’t for the noise of a nut being eaten.
Busy Eating a Nut
Picture of the Day for April 11, 2016
Yesterday, the critters were enjoying the warmer day and the little red squirrel was chattering my cats on the ground. He would go from branch to branch, but out of range of the leashes the cats were on, teasing them. Although my cats couldn’t reach him, the other little red squirrel could and they chased each other. Today the critters aren’t playing as much with the snowflakes falling around them.
American Red Squirrel
Picture of the Day for February 19, 2016
The squirrels apparently didn’t like the winter time rain this morning either as this naughty squirrel was enlarging the hole of the bluebird house to get inside out of the cold rain. So now I have more birdhouses to repair in the spring!
Naughty Squirrel
Picture of the Day for July 1, 2015
While some people don’t like the destructive nature of some squirrels, just like I don’t like my chipmunks destroying my flowers and garden, but the little critters are cute. This little American Red Squirrel was happily eating the silver maple seeds near the trunk of the tree.
Red Squirrel Eating Seeds
Picture of the Day for February 26, 2015
I am watching one of my naughty squirrels sitting in the bird feeder right now and the birds are complaining. I complain when those same squirrels keep peeing on my porch screen and I can five yellow streaks right now. The gray squirrels are the trouble makers and so far the black squirrels just eat on the ground.
Good Squirrel
Picture of the Day for September 11, 2013
This squirrel is going to get hollered at since he should not be in the bird feeder but squirrels can quickly figure out most “squirrel-proof” feeders.
Bad Squirrel
Picture of the Day for October 10, 2012
With the sunshine, even if a chilly day, the squirrels are busy gathering nuts for the long winter. The red squirrel is smart by stashing his in the oak tree but the other squirrels are digging holes in my lawn and burying them. I don’t know how they will get the nuts back once the ground freezes hard and buried under snow but apparently their keen sense of smell can help them locate nuts buried under a foot of snow. But because they don’t relocate all their buried stash of the estimated 1,000 to 10,000 nuts each autumn, the squirrel is the Johnny Appleseed of trees; a forest planter as many new trees sprout the next year, including all the ones in my flower pots!
Nutty Squirrel
Picture of the Day for September 5, 2012
The woods are bustling with squirrels, collecting acorns and bitternuts. And while most will scramble up a tree if I get too close, my new little red squirrel comes towards me and gives me a royal chewing out. The gray and black squirrels aren’t the only victims of this tiny little spit ball who fiercely guards the bitternut tree.
He is small enough that he claimed one of the chipmunk holes in an old oak tree so a family of chipmunks has been dislodged too due to this new arrival. I wonder what will happen if the red squirrel tangles with my cat. I think the squirrel will win!
Little Feisty Red Squirrel
Picture of the Day for August 27, 2012
The little red squirrel is back, although a little bigger than the last time I saw him. But his little size doesn’t stop him from chasing the larger black squirrels away, especially since bitternuts were involved. Although his mother apparently didn’t tell him to wipe his mouth off as he eats, but then he was in a hurry to get another nut ate as quickly as he could.
Red Squirrel eating a Bitternut
Picture of the Day for July 16, 2012
I had a new visitor show up at my place, a cute baby little red squirrel. I have had gray, black and even white ones for a few years but this is the first red one. And he has such a high squeaking chatter compared to the other squirrels that I was able to find him the next day by following the different noise.
He sure is a cute little critter and about the same size as a chipmunk. I thought it was a chipmunk at first running up the side of a tree until I saw the bigger tail.
