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Sciurus vulgaris
Juvenile red squirell (in thi region they mostly have brown coats).
Big pine forest, just near the sea coast!
Although our squirrels shy from people, this one was so cought up in munching a tomato on a rocks, not 1/2 a meter from sea, that she did not run away even when I stuck a phone in her face to take a close-up! Even my dog had not scared her!
Spotted on Aug 21, 2012
Submitted on Aug 22, 2012
3 Comments
This squirrel made a good choice: tomato instead of potato chips!
Well tomato most likley came with my fellow citizens or tourists the day before (this was around 7 A.M.), since this whole hill (Marjan) becomes one big place to go swimming and sun bathing. Beach is an innapropriate name couse its typicall Croatias coast full of large/sharp rocks.
Sadly, people leave all kind of junk behind them, and tomato is one of ''lesser evils''!
I wonder where she got the tomato. When they are busy eating, I think it is the only good time to take a picture