I found this pair doing a chase around the tree trunk, spiralling it nicely, silently. Them running about was a sight to see. I knew something special was behind this act which was proved by this shot. I used my bino-zoom method to get these shots from the window, about 20 feet away.
The sun was shining in the morning about 8am. It was filtering through the leaves of Polyalthea on the east. Some rays were on this little fella.
One more.
Wow, is that neat, Dinu - your squirrels have stripes, lol! We have chipmunks (ground squirrels) with stripes, but our actual squirrels are a solid color. I heard before that squirrels are found on every continent, but they just look a little different. Neat!
~Kristy
I heard before that squirrels are found on every continent, but they just look a little different.
LOL!!! It's 4 am here and I laughed SO loud when I looked at that pic that I had to put my hand over my mouth! I hope I didn't wake anybody up, heh. Ginger, did you create that pic or find it online? Toooo funny!
~Kris
Hmmmm better get back into my garden and take photo's ... who knows what type of squirrels are lurking...
That pose of the squirrel is typical. They do it here also while eating something, holding with both hands. It is a funny sight to me as well. Now that I have a zoom cam, I will look for opportunities when they do that.
Those stripes have a myth. In the epic story Ramayana, those squirrels had helped the monkeys build a bridge across to Lanka (now Sri Lanka) and so won the appreciation of Lord Rama. Rama appreciated the squirrels by drawing lines with his three fingers on their backs and so those are the stripes we see today. Sounds funny, but we kids believed that then!
Hey Dinu, that's really cool about the myth of the squirrel stripes! I love mythology. I've read parts of the Ramayana, but it was a long time ago, so I don't remember much of it. (I like Greek and Roman mythology the best. I only know a little of other kinds.) Thanks for sharing! Ü
~Kris
Took this shot of the striped creature in the morning - on top of our house.
Your squirrel is much prettier than the ground squirrel we have here.
Thanks for sharing! It's always a pleasure to see wildlife images from other parts of the world.
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Awwww, he's cute. Didn't you say they got into your roof, Dinu? We had some here that did the same thing. I thought I was crazy, hearing them run around, until I realized they were up there, lol.
~Kris
Yes, they live in our home, 'clandestinely'! Here is a shot of last evening.
It was yelling at me again.
Speaking of squirrels in the home "clandestinely," last week my husband discovered that a red squirrel had used its teeth to make a hole at the corner of the garage door and was coming into the garage. The squirrel was attracted by the bags of birdseed stored in a sturdy plastic bin, which my husband often forgets to close with a lid. However, after seeing the squirrel in the garage, he made sure to put the lid on the bin. Yesterday we found that the squirrel had chewed through the thick plastic and made itself a private entrance to the seed bin. We now have two cats on guard duty in the garage, while my husband goes out to buy a metal bin.
Blame it on plastic, not poor old Hubby, June! LOL. ;}
We don't have this problem as we put some food in a place where they eat, actually meant for birds. But they don't enter the household and damage things. For their nesting, they sometimes pick up jute threads and any soft substance they find outside the home kept in odd places.
Dinu, we put food out for the squirrels too, but in recent weeks most of it has been consumed by raccoons. The squirrels are very bold, but they are much smaller than the raccoons, and so they must wait until after the raccoons have eaten before approaching the table. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any way to feed squirrels without also feeding raccoons, as both animals are expert climbers.
Let them share! It is our minds that decide it is for squirrels.. and so on. But they don't know! That's Nature!
Oh I enjoyed this thread, especially the BIRDSQUIRREL. I have many in my yard that I feed peanuts, and even though they are all the same to most people, I see differences, some obvious, some not, and most have names. They are also very destructive little buggers!
When I was in Germany I saw black squirrels, with little white tufts on their ears, if I remember right.
Bhavana,
How much you love them! Names and identities! Amazes me. Those black one in Germany must have been a funny sight?
