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Red squirrels are now relatively uncommon in Scotland outside a number of small enclaves not overun by the larger bolder grey squirrel.
Conservation of red squirrels is now a focus , hope it works they are beatiful animals.
Get this shot when I was just testing my new lens our backyard. So it was maby fifth shot with this Tamron :) I think its mushroom what he eats..
Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) perched at the base of a tree.
Wiewiórka (Sciurus vulgaris) siedząca u podstawy drzewa.
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia.[1] The earliest known squirrels date from the Eocene period and are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to the dormouse among other living rodent families
Fun and games watching the cheeky squirrels on Brownsea Island. A big thank you to the people who view or comment on my photos and also add them as favourites.
Mud Lake, Ottawa
“The eastern grey squirrel is the largest tree squirrel found in eastern Canada. It is predominantly a nut-eating species and its historic range coincided with the vast tracts of hardwood forests in eastern North America, in particular with oak and hickory trees.
Eastern grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis commonly occur in two colour phases, grey and black, which leads people to think—mistakenly—that there are two different species. Black is often the dominant colour in Ontario and Quebec, toward the northern limits of the species’ range. Farther south the black phase is less common and is not found at all in the southern United States. This may indicate that the gene responsible for black coloration has some cold-weather adaptation associated with it.”
Source: Hinterland Who’s Who (web)
Top day out photographing red squirrels. Unfortunately the weather was wet although it seems it was nice everywhere else! Had to shoot at iso 3200!
This poor little squirrel and the others seem to have been rubbing there nose on something?
Managed to catch the reflection of the woodland in this squirrels eye while it was chomping on a hazelnut.
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