Cute and adorable as babies, the red squirrel can grow up to be a huge pest around the home.
It seems there is a family of the critters living nearby.
Little red squirrels are much cuter than the big gray ones and we have plenty of the speedy little guys where I live in New Hampshire.
They dart about like little maniacs, always moving fast, unless they are stopping to chow down on birdseed. Because my kids gave me a nice, new camera last year, I can get some great shots of them from inside my house.
This one is young it seems, because he doesn't have a full bushy tail yet and he's tiny.
They can be demanding and obnoxious.
The red squirrel is so darn cute, it's hard not to like it. But they can be demanding and obnoxious. In my rental house, I would put feeders up and seed on the deck outside my back door. I had been getting only squirrels - red and gray - so I stopped putting seed on the deck.
One day I heard a thumping sound outside. When I went out, I saw a red squirrel running off and I found the entire rounded top of the wood handle of my shovel chewed off!
I think the little guy was ticked off that I was no longer giving him a free lunch!
Am I inviting trouble?
I know that all wildlife needs to eat, but I don't believe they need that much help from us humans to survive. After all, we are told not to feed bears and other animals or they will become dependent on it.
In the case of squirrels, they become obnoxious and annoying when they don't get what they want.
I do believe in helping out the birds in winter by providing seeds, but becoming overrun with squirrels cleaning up the leftovers could be inviting trouble.
The little red squirrels in my backyard are so cute.
When I took the photos on this page, I thought I just had to share them. These little guys are so cute. And while looking around for more photos, I discovered the English squirrel (below) who really made me laugh. Those ears are too much. He does have beautiful coloring though.
I don't know why, but he just makes me laugh every time I view this photo.
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Red or gray, the squirrels' acrobatic antics can be fun to watch.
Squirrels are rodents and can be destructive. Their eagerness to get to food (birdseed in the case of this gray squirrel) means they will chew through plastic and sometimes metal to get it.
Even though red squirrels are smaller than the gray ones, they will also hang precariously on feeders to sneak food not intended for them.
No one has yet been able to keep squirrels out of feeders and in the woods where they belong. They just will not cooperate. So we either don't feed birds, or try to enjoy their cuteness as they rip apart our feeders!
I'm not a fancy photographer. I just point and click.
The camera used for these photos of the little squirrels in my yard, is the Sony Cyber-shot. It was a gift from my kids last Christmas.
I've had fun playing with it, but haven't used most of the features. It does have an adjustable viewing screen, and Intelligent Auto Adjustment (makes me look good) - so I really don't have to do much to get these great pics.
It also has a cool panoramic mode which allows for taking a "moving" photo (the camera moves) to give you a long, landscape view.
The squirrel photos were taken from inside my house - through the semi-dirty sliding door glass, and through the deck rails, so it has a great zoom - 20x.
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