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Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Red squirrels are small squirrels, reddish in color with a white belly and throat.
Typically these squirrels are found in conifer or mixed conifer/hardwood forests. They have been expanding their range, however, into forest dominated by hardwoods.
This particular squirrel had been chasing gray squirrels from under our bird feeder.
Spotted on Oct 29, 2010
Submitted on Feb 28, 2011
44 Comments (1–25)
this squirrel is smaller than the common squirrel,but is super cute,his fur was have litter red color
Too cute! It's an amazing spotting!
Pretty nice !! :)
So sweet!
Cutest thing ever!
Very cute.
Very Nice...
Beautiful ! Thank you for posting
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.
How did you get that close? Wow... Great photo
Beautiful colors and capture! And of course, SUPER CUTE!!!
Very cute!
Very cute
lovely!
Beautiful!
Lovely!
Entertaining Spotting. Enjoyed it.
Cute!
Glad you enjoyed this spotting!
This is great! It's great!
thank for sharing such a lovely pics.
Thanks Gordon Nice info..with observation..
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.
very cute
Super cute, and a great photo.