Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Ohh Black Squirrel...



There are at least two black squirrels who live in the woods behind us. These individuals (who are a sub group of the eastern greys) blend so well in dark summer woods but you can see them for miles in the winter snow! Because of their unique coloring, they are easy to individualize and look out for. I worry everytime I hear an owl hoot at night, hunting for, well, squirrels for dinner! Here's a couple tiny scratch spots of him I did yesterday, and a photo from the fall underneath the bird feeder.

2 comments:

Julia Kelly said...

I love your squirrels! And was not familiar with the black ones- I miss the park squirrels around my moms house where I grew up, we don't have them here. Lovely pics!

Claudia said...

Thanks Julia. No squirrels in your neck of the US woods? Love your collage style, too (from what I see from your avatar)- our mediums share the same sensibilites. By the way, I've tried to look at your blog several times now (the musings site) and about 3 seconds after I log in, your site disappears and some unrelated site pop up- always a different one (once it was a chinese tv station , another time a gun advocay blog) Has anyone else mentioned this? Virus maybe...not sure. I'll keep trying.

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