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Mammals - Squirrel Page 24
Image Taken on 27 Aug 2020
at 08:02 Image of day on 09 Oct 2020
Grass cut the previous day, This Grey Squirrel was vigorously scraping at the
ground, and it seems found an acorn.
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Image Taken on 18 Mar 2016
at 06:56 Image of day on 22 Apr 2016
The 'Day' shift - on a really gloomy morning a Grey squirrel
arrives to wait for the peanut feeder to appear.
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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2021
at 11:27 Image of day on 21 Feb 2021
At the moment any sunny morning will find one or more Grey Squirrels
enjoying this sheltered tree-stump. These creatures seem to find the bark
of this Pollarded Willow a desirable snack - like this moment here they will
scape away at the top edge of the bark - the pale wood along the top
edge shows where they have already been.
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Image Taken on 03 May 2016
at 18:41 Image of day on 13 Jun 2016
This Grey squirrel was nibbling fruit from the inside of this piece of apple peel,
which it then discarded.
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Image Taken on 27 Dec 2022
at 12:43 Image of day on 21 Jan 2023
As Vegans we eat quite a lots of nuts all year, and enjoy the Christmas glut
of fresh nuts available from the supermarkets.
Here this Grey Squirrel is using his sharp front teeth to scrape out the cooked
Chestnut husks of fragments that our cutlery missed.
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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2015
at 11:12 Image of day on 23 Mar 2015
Our vegetable garden is this year fallow for the winter awaiting
warmer and dryer days. To this Grey Squirrel the loose soil is a
wonderland to dig over for hidden treasures.
Top left the Squirrel found a stem of onion it gleefully devoured.
Bit too hot - lets have a drink.
Another dig found this small potato - much too good to risk
eating where others could try to steal it, so off to some
secluded spot to eat it.
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Image Taken on 30 Jan 2013
at 07:44 Image of day on 03 Mar 2013
Grey Squirrels are normally so elegant, but here we catch one
off-guard enjoying an ecstatic scratch.
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Image Taken on 30 Jun 2012
at 05:44 Image of day on 13 Aug 2012
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker still thinks it can outwit the
Grey Squirrel - the adults long ago learned better.
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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2021
at 14:05 Image of day on 15 Dec 2021
This abstract pattern is the tail tip of a Grey Squirrel.
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Image Taken on 14 Jan 2012
at 15:46 Image of day on 14 Feb 2012
The Grey Squirrel selects one of several Hazelnuts for 'afters'.
And then the rest of course!
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Image Taken on 25 Jan 2020
at 13:25 Image of day on 16 Feb 2020
A Grey squirrel having a good 'shake out' defeats both the high-speed
camera flash and the 1/200 Sec camera shutter to produce this unusual rendition.
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Image Taken on 05 Jul 2015
at 14:48 Image of day on 08 Sep 2015
Very heavy downpours usually send creatures scuttling for cover.
This Grey Squirrel looks like it was getting soaked, and used its
flexible body to shake the fur dry (well a bit less wet anyway).
All those peanuts without having to fight off other squirrels
for them must be worth the soaking.
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Image Taken on 14 Jun 2016
at 16:25 Image of day on 01 Aug 2016
"Raindrops keep falling on my head ..."
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Image Taken on 12 May 2021
at 18:19 Image of day on 07 Jun 2021
Should we tell the Magpie that the Grey Squirrel was sitting on his food 3 minutes earlier?
The Magpie's eye is fine - he has closed his nictitating membrane (inner eyelid) for a moment.
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Image Taken on 10 Jan 2017
at 15:31 Image of day on 15 Feb 2017
What looks like a thoroughly irritable Grey Squirrel - there may be one of their
aggressive hissing calls to go with this. A corvid (some sort of crow) is
passing behind.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2023
at 07:54 Image of day on 17 Oct 2023
Here out on the Farm Road it is a human behind the lens.
Why hope for a human hand-out - there's 100 acres of corn 'fresh on the stalk' all around.
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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2023
at 09:39 Image of day on 25 Aug 2023
An adult Grey Squirrel spread-eagled on a sunny branch in the south hedge couldn't
care less about the 2 humans 10 metres away. "This is the life!".
If this is a 'mum' squirrel, we completely understand her point of view.
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Image Taken on 07 May 2012
at 14:38 Image of day on 15 Jun 2012
An Unusual moment of ascent caught by the tail tip going through
the sense beam just above the top of the tree-stump
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Image Taken on 29 Apr 2019
at 09:44 Image of day on 29 May 2019
We don't remember seeing a Grey Squirrel like this, running
with back paws well in front of the front paws.
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Image Taken on 23 Dec 2022
at 14:04 Image of day on 17 Jan 2023
A collapsed mouse tunnel is now big enough for a Grey Squirrel
to comfortably stand in. Banana is on the menu at this moment.
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