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As the weather is turning colder the birds and squirrels are heading for the bird tables. This is the first grey squirrel I've seen there this year, but of course there will be many more.
Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) .
Town Lake Park. Irving, Texas.
Dallas County. 14 November 2004.
Olympus E-1. ZD 50-200mm + EC-14.
(283mm) f4.9 @ 1/50 sec. (IS) ISO 400.
Wild squirrel shot in a parc from Bucarest.
I used a Olympus sp-550 uz with teleconvertor TCON-17.
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It was a great day for squirrels! A lot of folks do not like squirrels but I think they are interesting creatures and very photogenic. Sure they pissd me ooff sometimes at my feeders at home but they have as much right to the free food as the birds.
Kensington Metro Park, MI
Amazingly for 1600 ISO this is not as bad as I might have expected, the Powershot doing a pretty good job considering the conditions.
Squirrel at the so called "Tiroler Garten" (tyrolean garden) in Vienna - some meters before the entrance of the zoo "Schönbrunn".
One of the squirrels of St James's Park, doing well out of the people feeding the birds.
Sciurus carolinensis
Grey squirrels are notorious for displacing red squirrels in European woodlands. They out-compete the native reds for food, feeding more at ground level and being able to digest acorns, which the reds can't. They also carry a deadly pox virus which does not affect them. Grey squirrels were introduced to the UK from the USA in the late 19th or early 20th century. They're now widespread throughout England south of Cumbria and Wales, and common in local pockets in Scotland. They are absent from the rest of mainland Europe, except for small localised populations in Italy.
Taken in St James's Park