Squirrels

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When Sam Beaumont sees a flash of red up a tree on his Lake District farm, he feels a swell of pride. He’s one of the few people in England who gets to see red squirrels in his back garden.

“I feel very lucky to have them on the farm. It’s an important thing to try and keep a healthy population of them. They are absolutely beautiful,” he said.

Most of us are much more familiar with their sturdy, grey American cousins. But once there were 3.4 million red squirrels in the UK, and with their glossy auburn fur, delicate frames and big tufty ears, they are the endangered animal whose loss Britons perhaps feel most deeply.

Oly E-M1 @ 246mm, f/7.1, 1/250s, ISO-320. Edited in darktable.

This little guy was grooming after a snack and I was lucky enough to snap a few shots.

I also found a tailless eastern grey.

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Photo by Jean-Simon Asselin, licensed CC BY 2.0

Source: Gabriel Perez Salazar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This friend lives near me, I see them almost every day :)

Squirrel is bulking for the winter

fat squirrel

Squirrels have babies twice a year, and here is baby #1 of round 2.

We got 5 more this morning too. Some of the new ones were dreaming, which I hadn't gotten to see before, and they were doing all kinds of cute mouth twitches and little kicks.

So tiny and cute!