Wrong colour for me Alison but a great blog anyway. Thanks for showing us this.

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Beautiful photos Alison well done thank you for sharing

Best wishes Julie

Great blog with great shots of Twiggy and friends. In pictures 4 and 6 twiggy and whiskers need to go on a diet or no more modeling work for them they look slightly chubby bit like me. Thank you for sharing.

Super blog Alison no matter what colour the Squirrel is they make good Photos

What a lovely blog Alison, good narrative and great photos. I've never yet got a squirrel pic I've been happy with!

Well Done!

Jacqui x

I have hoards of squirrels in the trees behind my house stealing bird food from my feeders! I no longer take photographs of them.  However, your photos are excellent and the narrative is brilliant.  I knew little about the animal itself and your narrative was so informative. I will watch them differently in future.

I believe squirrels are classified as vermin and can be shot.

Lovely blog Alison!!

You've photographed some very healthy plump specimens, Alison.  I didn't realised they could live for up to twelve years.  I would have guessed only two or three (and been way out).   I believe they're proposing to kill the greys in some part of the South West, to re-introduce reds.   Badgers are on the "kill" list in the South West too.  There's been a delay in starting this latter, due to the expectation of protests and the fact that extra police will need to be drafted to the Olympics and so can't be deployed to counter the badger kill protests expected in the South West, at the same time.   Lovely photography, Alison. 

I am fortunate to have ONLY red squirrels in my area.They are vermin and have pushed the reds to almost extinction.Lovely pics though and good narrative but my loyalties lie with the reds.They were introduced like the mink in this country and cause havoc with the locals.

 Thanks for the lovely comments. The squirrels were all wild in the woodland though 'Twiggy' who I aptly named seemed very friendly and very curious. I reckon she was very young and female and kept circling around us and eyeing me up. I had a few nuts and scattered a few on the woodland path and she slowly adventured closer to me as I was kneeling on the ground with the camera resting lying flat with the screen tilted up. I had to slightly crop a few blurred leaves out of the shot but could get eye level with her. I personally love photographing them ~ make for interesting shots. Thanks for your feedback.    

Hi Alison another stunning photoblog and you have narrated it briillantly these are such lovely animals we have a lot in our local park.  Once again Alison a great blog and many thanks for sharing best wishes BoB xx.

P/S Alison many many thanks for your lovely comments on my gallery picture I so hope we can meet up some time soon with you and the other members at one of these Fuji meets take care BoB.xx

A terrific blog, Alison. Lovely pictures with interesting and informative narrative. Thanks for posting.

Oh Alison I love them, all of them!! They are soo cute. The one peeping over the fence, priceless!!! The first few are brilliant too, with that gorgeous, curious expression, just brilliant!

Thank you so much for sharing. The squirrels in the park up the road are so quick I've only managed a couple of shots so it was great looking at these amazing captures.

Viv

I'm always happy to see another blog of yours in the line-up, Alison.  Not only are the photographs always great, but I always get the sense that you had fun somewhere in the process.  I've gone through these photos twice and I think the first shot of Twiggy is my favourite.

We've had two black squirrels hanging around here for the last few years.  They don't seem to be a pair, and we've never seen more than one at a time.  But boy, did they take care of our walnut crop this year! We got enough, mind you; but couldn't believe how much they took when we had a couple days away from home.

Thanks for posting--I'm off to check your gallery shots, now.

What an excellent photoblog you've produced here, Al. I loved looking at each and every one of your pics, and the narrative which you've painstakingly researched made very interesting reading, too.  I, too, am a fan of the humble squirrel (or tree-rat!) and really enjoy trying to take pictures of them. More often than not they are too quick for me but on that rare occasion when I actually manage a half-decent shot of one - wow, what a great feeling that is!  All I can say is that you must've felt that elation numerous times going by the wonderful pictures you've shared with us here.  Thank you so much for posting them - they're great!

Di.

Hi Alison, great blog, I have mixed feelings about greys, cute though, I especially liked your no 5, I don't get chance to photgraph them, Ruby my dog is a big squirrel chaser and other things. Enjoyed viewing.

 Good morning Fred ~ Thanks for your lovely comment. 

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments.

 Thanks for the lovely tweet on twitter Fred..  'You'd be nuts not to like this Finepix user's blog about squirrels'.

Fancy Charlie watching a grey squirrel tuck into its peanuts Ann as you were reading my squirrel blog. LOL...    I'm feeling alot better now thanks 

WOW Alison, so thats how its done eh!?  I think you found a preggy lady squiggle there eh  you should have babby ones to take pics of soon  YAY!  I bet you'll be like a new mummy haah!!  

GREAT stuff

What an enjoyable blog! Some brilliant shots here - thank you for putting it together

Fabulous collection of photos and very detailed information of their habits and habitats,makes a wonderful blog,and like the cute names-the tilt-screen is a Godsend for saving the back too. Great job,regards.