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Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinesis) comes on the scrounge for peanuts while out last Monday on a walk through Peasholm Park and the Glen in Scarborough.
The Gray Squirrels in Peasholm Park are numerous and are nearly all quite tame and will take food from the hand and give a good nip to the unwary. As I was knelt down to get this low angle I had another getting on my knee to see if he could munch on the camera strap as it dangled loose in nibbling distance.
The Gray Squirrels were taking the nuts as fed and taking them and burying them so that they have a supply throughout the colder months of the year,though on most days there are people down there feeding them.
There were scores and scores of nuts and seedcases in the Park, lying amongst the fallen leaves.
Some were like this shot, just beginning to open, whilst other were split wide.
In the Park there is a wonderful sweet chestnut, and a passing walker described how she had planted 100 sweet chestnut 'nuts', and managed to get one tree to grow! It is now 17' tall, so she did well.
Taken in Levens Park yesterday with hand held Canon PowerShot A470.
This squirrel was another one of my encounters on New Year's morning at Monrepos. Of course I had filled my pockets with nuts for the squirrels before I left the house. Making the squirrels happy makes me happy too. :)
First a grinning walnut on my desk, then a mutant peanut, then both together, and now these things. Why are things so nutty lately?
From an abutment on the Fremont Bridge in Portland Oregon. Someone viewing this said it made them happy because it reminded them of their dad who had worked on building the bridge.
I walked up on this guy when he was trying to bury his walnut. He gave me a dirty look and ran up the fence and waited until I left.
"If only I could find a safe place to eat this enormous nut!"
I was going to take some pictures of one of the patio areas in the Lincoln Park Zoo when I crossed paths with this squirrel sitting at the top of the stairs. All the tables, umbrellas, and chairs all faded away providing an interesting background.
Meyer Optik Trioplan 100mm 2.8
Aperture was wide open.
This photograph was taken in Kings Park and Botanical Garden in Perth WA.
When I took the shot I knew very little about Perth. I now know little more, except that edible nuts are a major agricultural crop in the area. Perhaps nuts are native to the region. I can't identify the subject of this photo. I took the shot I liked the shapes and light.
The Connection Between Hazelnuts and Filberts.
Catholicism is thought to be responsible for the fact that hazelnuts are widely known as filberts. That's because the feast day, or celebration, for France's St. Philbert is held on Aug. 20. This happens to be the same time that hazelnuts are ready to be harvested. Because of that coincidence, in Europe, where hazelnuts are widely eaten, the nuts are known as filberts.
On the other hand, some historians believe the term filbert derives from the German vollbart. The word means "full beard," which the husked shell of the hazelnut resembles. Although the terms filbert and hazelnut are used interchangeably, filbert typically refers to commercially cultivated crops of hazelnuts.
A Different Moniker in the United States
Hazelnuts may be filberts in Europe, but across the pond, they're often described as cobnuts or plain hazels. Although some experts say cobnuts are a different variety of hazelnut, any distinctions in type are hard to see once the nuts are shelled. They are just too difficult to tell apart with the naked eye alone. Credit below
www.thespruceeats.com/why-are-hazelnuts-called-filberts-1...
66587 As One We Can approaches the footbridge near Brinklow Junction with 4M63 Felixstowe to Trafford Park. Wouldn't like the job of removing any of the nuts and bolts on the bridge to be honest....
We’re all nuts about Blythe around here!
This Blythe doll is Sadie Sprinkle with a Steiff squirrel for “Squirrel Appreciation “ in Blythe a Day on Flickr. No, it’s not too early for Valentine’s posts! These big weird decor acorns came from a thrift shop…I found them a few hours after envisioning this picture, but I was going to have to make it with normal sized acorns. What a coincidence! What a find!
A VW Type 2 Mark 1 bus, made entirely of sheet metal plates, nuts and bolts. The finished model weighs 1.3 kg! The kit is produced by the German company eitech. Assembly took me about two weeks and some parts still aren't right, but I just can't be bothered.
Shot with:
Canon EOS600D
Leica Bellows R (16860)
Leica 100mm f/4 Macro Elmar-R, bellows version (11230)