Red Squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Description:

Red squirrels are small squirrels, reddish in color with a white belly and throat.

Habitat:

Typically these squirrels are found in conifer or mixed conifer/hardwood forests. They have been expanding their range, however, into forest dominated by hardwoods.

Notes:

This particular squirrel had been chasing gray squirrels from under our bird feeder.

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44 Comments (1–25)

grade-78-science10 7 years ago

this squirrel is smaller than the common squirrel,but is super cute,his fur was have litter red color

Everyone is awesome 9 years ago

Too cute! It's an amazing spotting!

Nayeli 10 years ago

Pretty nice !! :)

robertmoore8 10 years ago

So sweet!

honeydogleo 10 years ago

Cutest thing ever!

HazelMarley 10 years ago

Very cute.

Ali Hemati Pour 11 years ago

Very Nice...

Bellasy 11 years ago

Beautiful ! Thank you for posting

Gordon Dietzman 11 years ago

This photo was taken in my backyard and I was in the house shooting through an open door. The squirrel was eating seeds kicked out of an overhead bird feeder and so was pretty relaxed, at least as relaxed as a red squirrel ever gets. To get the low angle shot, I was laying on the floor and using a telephoto lens. The original photo was cropped from horizontal to a vertical format, which makes it appear that I was closer than I really was. Still, I was probably within 2-3 meters.

Nicole_D_19 11 years ago

How did you get that close? Wow... Great photo

YukoChartraw 11 years ago

Beautiful colors and capture! And of course, SUPER CUTE!!!

Adarsha B S 12 years ago

Very cute!

namitha 12 years ago

Very cute

Uday 12 years ago

lovely!

Louisa 12 years ago

Beautiful!

MayraSpringmann 12 years ago

Lovely!

Anurag 12 years ago

Entertaining Spotting. Enjoyed it.

KatCuff 12 years ago

Cute!

Gordon Dietzman 12 years ago

Glad you enjoyed this spotting!

kyros.v 12 years ago

This is great! It's great!

UmapornSarasat 13 years ago

thank for sharing such a lovely pics.

Ashish Nimkar 13 years ago

Thanks Gordon Nice info..with observation..

Gordon Dietzman 13 years ago

Ashish, These squirrels are also very noisy...and aggressive compared to our other native squirrel, the gray squirrel. Red squirrels are spot hoarders, meaning they build up a winter food supply all in one spot. Gray squirrels are scatter hoarders. They also store winter foods as well, but they scatter their caches over a wide area. As a result, red squirrels have to be ready to defend their cache and are irritable and touchy animals if you approach their cache. Gray squirrels pretty much ignore a person because a person (or another squirrel, bear, etc.) would never be able to find all of their caches.

Thanks Textless and moralcoral for your kind words.