This, I hope, is not the last squirrel of winter, but rather the last photo of winter for this year. Taken more than two weeks ago with my iPhone as I walking from one library to another on campus, it captures the typical cute and fearless look of the local fox squirrels. It’s not a place you leave your peanuts unattended and find them undisturbed on your return.
There are signs of spring encouraging me. I’ve now heard the first Red-winged Blackbird of the season, seen a groundhog paddling in the wetlands, watched a skunk wandering about the neighborhood, spotted a yearling deer in the distant fields, observed a growing group of robins, grackles, doves, hawks, & crows, and cleaned the first pile of raccoon poop off the deck. 
Ah, spring.
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What a little cutie! Up here in NH we have gray squirrels, tiny red squirrels and flying squirrels (you know like Rocky and Bullwinkle)…not a chance of catching a photo of a flying ace…but my daughter did see one soar from one tall tree to another once. Thanks for stopping by my blog today and for you wise comment.
Love the picture. My iPhone squirrel photos never look so good! Do you use an app to zoom, or were you just super close to the fearless marauder? Where I lived in Texas, we had fox squirrels. They are big! Here in NYC, Eastern gray squirrels rule.
We had eastern Gray Squirrels in Virginia – they look tiny to me, now, though they didn’t at the time. And there’s no need to zoom with these guys! They take “in your face” to the max.
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