A fox ran through my yard this morning, hoping to snatch one of the many squirrels foraging for seeds on the ground beneath the bird-feeders. While we have an overpopulation of black squirrels that need "thinning out", I was glad he didn't catch the squirrel I have named 'Coco', who wears a stylish black and brown outfit, and has a tiny blonde tip to her tail. Does anyone else have a named squirrel? (Polite names only, please!)
I have two. They were out and about for a few moment between storms. The names are nothing fancy but it was the only names I could come up with at the time "Chip" & Dale"
Out of the 100s we have that roam our neighborhood back yards, these two are the only ones that will come all the way up to our back patio looking for the nuts they hid in my pool table pockets. Sadly I have have moved them to deter them from tearing up my felt on the pool table. It's like playing hide and seek. Sometimes they find them as I try to put them closer to the back sliding glass window to get a picture but as soon as I spot one and get the camera they are gone. I'll catch a picture of them one of these days
Wow, Coco is really very pretty! I've never seen one like that. All the squirrels around here are grey and I really can't tell them apart. I did see one in the early spring last year that looked like he had a bob tail, and I was always watching for him. That one would have had a name eventually, but he disappeared. Not sure what happened to him, or if the shorter tail made him less fit for survival.
We do have a pair of Sand Hill Cranes that visit our yard in the summer. They're named Ricky and Lucy
Name: Margaret Near Kamloops, BC, Canada (Zone 3a)
We have a young red squirrel that claimed our yard as his territory in August, I haven't named him, but I do talk to him when I fill the bird feeders, he is cute as can be. After what he was doing the other day I think I will name him Foolish. There has been a Sharp-shinned hawk hanging around for quite some time, saw it in the willow the other day and got a few shots of it, then I was going to chase it away, so it didn't get my birds, next thing I see is the fool squirrel getting too close to the hawk for comfort, I got a few shots of him in action, he kept getting closer and closer to the hawk. I went out and chased the hawk away before the squirrel became lunch.
Name: Margaret Near Kamloops, BC, Canada (Zone 3a)
Jack, it was a very unusual site for sure. The photos were taken through the window and it was snowing, so not too sharp. The hawk was back again today and Foolish was trying his best to annoy the hawk and get it out of his tree, and he did it, the hawk moved higher in the tree at first then finally left.
