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Mammals - Squirrel Page 10

Image Taken on 07 Jan 2026 at 09:29 Image of day on 14 Feb 2026

Its seems to be mostly Grey Squirrels that are gradually stripping the Hawthorn and Rose bushes of their fruits.

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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2024 at 09:11 Image of day on 13 Nov 2024

This Grey Squirrel is ever hopeful of finding a way to get at the nuts from these Squirrel-proof peanut feeders. Squirrels have had several successful outcomes over several year with lid locks failing, feeders falling, etc. so it's always worth them having a look.

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Image Taken on 14 Oct 2017 at 16:05 Image of day on 19 Nov 2017

The Robin doesn't argue with the arriving Grey Squirrel - just grabs a final beakful and leaves!

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Image Taken on 21 Nov 2017 at 13:04 Image of day on 29 Dec 2017

Another visit by the Grey Squirrel clambering up the tree-stump.
Ooh yummy - strawberry!
The streak down the wood is the slime of a Leopard slug that reached the top the 'hard way'

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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2011 at 12:10 Image of day on 27 Apr 2011

A young (well at least small) Grey Squirrel flees from our arrival up the trunk of our tallest tree - a black poplar named 'Ivan' after a deceased friend.

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Image Taken on 27 Oct 2019 at 12:57 Image of day on 12 Dec 2019

The Grey Squirrel on the right appears to have decided to see off the Squirrel already at the top, but the top Squirrel seems to have other ideas.

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Image Taken on 28 Oct 2025 at 08:42 Image of day on 23 Dec 2025

This Grey Squirrel walks up the (quite rough surface) concrete power pole, and then walks down the same side by turning their rear feet though nearly 180 degrees to grip the surface when head down.

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Image Taken on 04 Nov 2024 at 12:58 Image of day on 06 Dec 2024

This ~~Tree Rat~~ Grey Squirrel brings a small Teasel head up to the Bird-table top to devour it.

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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2022 at 17:58 Image of day on 03 Nov 2022

"Just testing the apple for Ripeness"?

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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2025 at 12:23 Image of day on 04 Dec 2025

The crop of Acorns this year has been amazing.
The Grey Squirrels are making the most of the opportunity to cache a supply to eat in the winter.
If you see a squirrel with something held in it's mouth at this time of year it is on the way to be stored. If a Squirrel wants to eat it it will nibble at it where they found it whilst held hidden between their paws.

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Image Taken on 20 Oct 2025 at 10:25 Image of day on 04 Dec 2025

Another Acorn being taken to the Grey Squirrel's cache.

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Image Taken on 07 Dec 2010 at 08:37 Image of day on 28 Jan 2011

This grey squirrel (about 80 metres from the other site) is obviously collecting winter bedding, and at these temperatures we hope it was warm enough. Caught in another photo a few days later doing the same thing, so it is probably a routine 'housekeeping'.

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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2024 at 14:22 Image of day on 14 Feb 2024

As this extremely cold day wears on, this Squirrel decides to lay in some extra bedding. Same as for us then!

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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2018 at 18:54 Image of day on 10 Nov 2018

Conkers Wrapped or Unwrapped - the Grey Squirrel doesn't care.

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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2024 at 08:56 Image of day on 12 Oct 2024

Over 4 days we see 4 passages of Grey Squirrels carrying another Ear of corn from the field to our west. How many actual passages the Squirrel makes without triggering the photo evidence is impossible to even guess.

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Image Taken on 25 Aug 2024 at 07:11 Image of day on 12 Oct 2024

Two days later the Wheat field to our west has been harvested (the only nearby source of corn ears), and this Grey Squirrel is picking up some of the crop that the combine harvester dropped.

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Image Taken on 26 Jan 2017 at 12:34 Image of day on 05 Mar 2017

Everybody knows that Grey squirrels cache large items of food (mainly nuts) to eat another day. But this Squirrel was making repeated visits to the corn scattered bird table to collect some grain in his mouth and then leap down to bury it in the grass a few metres away. Here is one of the sequences all photographed in the same minute.
Can we expect a fine crop of corn here next year?

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Image Taken on 08 Jan 2026 at 13:49 Image of day on 21 Feb 2026

This Grey Squirrel has just left the main pond island to nibble corn that has been thrown onto the ice.

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Image Taken on 09 Dec 2024 at 11:56 Image of day on 15 Jan 2025

With the temperature stuck at 5C and 6C over several days and nights it is cold enough to need to supplement the bedding in the Drey.

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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2020 at 15:52 Image of day on 06 Mar 2020

As much dry leaf as can be crammed into the mouth of this Grey Squirrel on its way to reinforce the Drey.

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