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Mammals - Squirrel Page 21

Image Taken on 25 Oct 2022 at 10:44 Image of day on 26 Nov 2022

Twee moment of the week is this pristine Grey squirrel ensconced in a bed of fallen leaves nibbling food from their paws.

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Image Taken on 19 Nov 2024 at 08:40 Image of day on 26 Dec 2024

Then the first snow of this season arrived as the temperature dropped to about -3C

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Image Taken on 11 Dec 2017 at 12:43 Image of day on 18 Jan 2018

Grey Squirrels have a few favourite places to nestle in what there is of any warming sunshine. This is one of the picturesque ones - another is the top of a Great-Tit/Tree Sparrow nest box.

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Image Taken on 02 Nov 2025 at 12:32 Image of day on 23 Dec 2025

Is this pic of the Grey Squirrel, or the sea of fallen leaves?

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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2018 at 15:24 Image of day on 24 Feb 2018

So much for Grey Squirrels only coming out of their Dreys on warm days!

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Image Taken on 10 Jun 2011 at 12:54 Image of day on 20 Jul 2011

The Woodland Trust asked us to see if we could supply some 'animals stealing picnic food' pics. The local squirrel was the most obliging - they can't resist (low salt) peanut butter!

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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2026 at 13:38 Image of day on 07 Mar 2026

Grey Squirrels can use their tails as 'built in umbrellas'.

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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2011 at 15:28 Image of day on 20 Dec 2011

The grey squirrels beat us to most of the hazelnuts while they are unripe on the trees, so we buy them at the local supermarket like everybody else! A few of these go down a treat with our population of 'tree rats'

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Image Taken on 29 Oct 2017 at 12:43 Image of day on 08 Dec 2017

As the leaf canopy thins the light penetrating the inside of the woodland gradually increases, here illuminating a Grey Squirrel against a still black background.

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Image Taken on 06 Apr 2021 at 17:00 Image of day on 01 May 2021

Grey Squirrels have dense enough tails that they can use them as an umbrella. We see this behaviour in snow, rain and strong winds.

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Image Taken on 30 May 2015 at 18:27 Image of day on 04 Aug 2015

Grey squirrel Yoga?
Modern Dance?
Awkward landing?

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Image Taken on 28 Dec 2015 at 12:50 Image of day on 31 Jan 2016

The sun came out for an hour or two, and a few squirrels could be seen finding wind sheltered but sunny corners for a sunbathe.
At the top right corner is the now totally destroyed 'Barn owl Box' we expect to fall without our help any time soon.

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Image Taken on 16 May 2015 at 17:35 Image of day on 16 Jul 2015

Back in the Yew tree this Grey Squirrel was looking so twee as it was probably destroying this years catkins :-(

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Image Taken on 04 Mar 2023 at 13:50 Image of day on 05 Apr 2023

This Grey Squirrel has found the way into the bait bag (a decades old dilapidated camera bag!) and could eat anything it wanted.
What did they pick? A piece of strawberry.

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Image Taken on 26 Oct 2021 at 15:44 Image of day on 04 Dec 2021

If you leave a bag of food unattended you should expect to return to find a Grey Squirrel feasting within!

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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2013 at 07:49 Image of day on 12 Nov 2013

This Grey Squirrel 'eating apple' looks lovely but isn't true. It was probably licking off the peanut butter stuck on the apple skin the evening before.

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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2024 at 11:59 Image of day on 14 Oct 2024

Committed.
No changing the Squirrels mind about the 1.5m drop now!

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Image Taken on 30 Nov 2025 at 10:31 Image of day on 14 Jan 2026

Time to have another go at breaking into the peanut feeder!

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Image Taken on 28 Jan 2013 at 16:30 Image of day on 03 Mar 2013

Grey Squirrels are normally so elegant, but here we catch one starting the 1.5 metre drop to the ground.

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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2020 at 06:02 Image of day on 30 Jun 2020

This Squirrel equivalent of 'Bambi' - a juvenile with big eyes and rounded ears. This seems to be the youngest Grey Squirrel we have ever managed to photograph.
Cooing is permitted.

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