Happy happy squirrel. He managed to work his way up the pear tree and after nearly braining himself on a branch, reached this:
Notice the size of the pears relative to the size of the squirrel...his effort paid off, and he hurried home with one firmly clenched in his teeth.
That is a great picture. Squirrels can be pests at times, but they are fun to watch when they run and seem to fly through the trees.
ReplyDeleteThey are true acrobats, arent they. He pretty much had the lawn to himself at that point, and we watched him, off and on all of one day, hunting pears, dragging them home, and then back for another. I began to fear for his waistline.
DeleteThe champeen acrobat, however, is the red squirrel, who for years has had territory further away from the house--you only hear him when you get too close. He sort of personifies Road Rage among rodents.
But this summer I guess he decided that pears are Good for Me too, so there has sprung up a kind of turf war between the two of them.