Here are a few squirrels I've seen over the past month prepping for winter for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay
They are all in a hurry to gather up as many acorns, walnuts and other storable food they can find. They always look surprised at me wondering if I am there to steal their food or something.
Then its off to bury their treasures. The trick is not letting the other squirrels see where their stash is.
This one definitely thought I was there to steal its walnut.
Off it ran to find a good hiding place.
They all seem to stash them near the bases of trees, possibly because its easier to dig in the dirt there.
Now it is looking at me wondering if I saw it's secret hiding place.
Nothing here but some dirt, there are definitely no walnuts stashed around my tree...
This one is specializing in collecting acorns.
This one doesn't like the looks of a photographer poking around its vicinity. I suspect it might have babies up in the tree somewhere.
Here she is retrieving something from her stash.
Right now they are still collecting as many nuts as they can. Better get them all hidden before the ground gets frozen. Who knows how many different acorns and walnuts they forget about and accidentally plant a tree.
This one looked like a juvenile. It will have to start learning about prepping from the other squirrels.
For now it is harvesting the last of the crab apples. I doubt these store very well, she better move on to collecting acorns before its too late. Or maybe her strategy is to observe from high up in the tree where all the other squirrels stashes are and she'll sneak around swiping food all winter.
That's all for now, soon I'll be trying to get some snow squirrel shots.
So many awesome shots of them, I see many in our backyard here but havent got any shots of them
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
Aha now you can setup an obstacle course for them. I noticed one of my neighbors setup a little one (super easy) with some wooden steps up to a tiny wooden picnic table mounted to the side of their fence. I'll have to sneak a zoom lens shot of their setup lol.
That sounds like a fun idea and project
Very smart squirrel!! He’s going to be fat this winter!
Hopefully he will still be fast enough to escape the hawks.
Wow... it's all amazing. How you get that ?
I just use a 50-200mm zoom lens and just walk around slowly. The squirrels are all over the place here.
Wow... nice job bro. It's very Beautifull picture...
The light was good too, my zoom lens does terrible in low light situations.
hello my good friend,@sketch.and.jam the squirrel looks very spoiled with you, I am very curious about the lens you are using,
They are spoiled over here with plenty of tree nuts and fruits. This is the lens I've been using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Zuiko_Digital_ED_50-200mm_f/2.8-3.5
wow, that must be expensive for the lens,
Still way cheaper than a canon version of this lens.
maybe I should save first to buy this lens hehehe,
Now they have a much newer version with a micro 4/3 camera body that is way better. Very expensive but still cheap compared to the Canon brand version.
I can only dream of this camera, only in my imagination, because my economy is very limited
What a cool squirrel! We once talked about the earedness of these animals)
The pictures are just great, congratulations on a successful photo hunt)
I would have to travel up higher north to see the ones with ear tufts on them. Also the ear tuft ones are smaller and faster. These fox squirrels are big and tame compared to the red squirrels. You will have to go out at night to see if you can get photos of these guys https://www.borealforest.org/world/mammals/russian_flying_squirrel.htm
And here, eared squirrels normally approach people and eat nuts from their hands)