Squirrel

ericgtr · 12-07-2007, 09:43 AM

This guy was willing to pose for some bread, I like the cheap models

I was able to get close enough to use my 50MM lense. I also had the camera on a tripod with a cable release for my shutter to try for a really crisp shot.

God Is Santa for Adults · 12-07-2007, 11:31 AM

here is my squirrel.

The_Heretic · 12-07-2007, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ericgtr

This guy was willing to pose for some bread, I like the cheap models

I was able to get close enough to use my 50MM lense. I also had the camera on a tripod with a cable release for my shutter to try for a really crisp shot.

"Get-a-nut-get-a-nut-get-a-nut-nut-nut-nut-nut! Gotta-have-it-gotta-have-it!"

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Originally Posted by God Is Santa for Adults

here is my squirrel.

"Is-he-gone? Evil-bird-feeder-bully? Is-he-gone?"

gorillamom · 12-07-2007, 03:05 PM

I love these little critters. I had to laugh at all the researchers saying they don't remember where they buried 60% of their nuts. I get up every 2 hours at night to take my medication and would open my sliding door to smoke. Well, I had about 18 pounds of shelled almonds that I had been feeding the squirrels during the day. What I discovered is that the racoons were digging up the nuts and eating them at night! Gotta love nature, we can never outsmart it.

The_Heretic · 12-07-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by gorillamom

I love these little critters. I had to laugh at all the researchers saying they don't remember where they buried 60% of their nuts. I get up every 2 hours at night to take my medication and would open my sliding door to smoke. Well, I had about 18 pounds of shelled almonds that I had been feeding the squirrels during the day. What I discovered is that the racoons were digging up the nuts and eating them at night! Gotta love nature, we can never outsmart it.

"Hey! There's a bigass cat out here! NOT COOL, man! He's eyeballin' me! C'mon!!! Hey! Hey...!"

gorillamom · 12-07-2007, 05:38 PM

"Let me in, somebody let me in!"

TC, the cat, loved his squirrel friends. Then a fox got TC. At least he went fast. Fox don't let their catch live once they get hold of it. They have to transport it quietly.

W.M.DEEEZ · 12-08-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ericgtr

This guy was willing to pose for some bread, I like the cheap models

I was able to get close enough to use my 50MM lense. I also had the camera on a tripod with a cable release for my shutter to try for a really crisp shot.

50 mm???!!!

Man, you were close enough to pet that sucker. Nice pic.

Nice glass.

jowey · 12-09-2007, 12:04 PM

A pet squirrel, Henry, visited our household for a couple of weeks. He was a wild little tyke. He climbed us like a tree scurrying under our clothes so fast you could not stop him.

What was unnerving was that he liked to nibble, with their incisor a nibble usually breaks skin. So he would perch on our shoulder and one would worry about him becoming affectionate with ones ear - pierced.....

Eventually he stayed outside and would return infrequently so we would put nuts out.

Much later we put a bird feeder out in the middle of the yard. The squirrels were all over it, kind of fun to watch. But then one day we returned from errands when we let our dogs out, an eagle was on our deck overlooking the feeder. This was one of those whoa, experiences as that huge wingspan opened up......

.......new meaning to feeding the birds.

DannyBoy · 12-13-2007, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ericgtr

This guy was willing to pose for some bread, I like the cheap models

I was able to get close enough to use my 50MM lense. I also had the camera on a tripod with a cable release for my shutter to try for a really crisp shot.

Stellar pic Eric, great detail. But hey, what is that sticking out of his belly ?...

jdanton · 12-21-2007, 07:48 PM

My friend had a squirrel follow him home from the local park one day. For about a week he could go into the back yard, hold his hand out (palm up) and call the squirrel and the squirrel would come down from the trees and sit on his hand.

then the squirrel disappeared.

My mom found a baby blue jay and nursed it to health. We'd leave the kitchen window open and he'd fly in every day just about noon and take a shower in the kitchen sink.

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gorillamom Beyond Liberal Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 2,153 My Mood: Thanks: 47 Thanked 13 Times in 7 Posts	I love these little critters. I had to laugh at all the researchers saying they don't remember where they buried 60% of their nuts. I get up every 2 hours at night to take my medication and would open my sliding door to smoke. Well, I had about 18 pounds of shelled almonds that I had been feeding the squirrels during the day. What I discovered is that the racoons were digging up the nuts and eating them at night! Gotta love nature, we can never outsmart it. __________________ The Clock of life is wound but once, And no man has the power, To tell just when the hands will stop On what day or what hour. Now is the only time we have, So live it with a will, Don't wait until tomorrow, The hands may then be still.
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gorillamom Beyond Liberal Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 2,153 My Mood: Thanks: 47 Thanked 13 Times in 7 Posts	"Let me in, somebody let me in!" TC, the cat, loved his squirrel friends. Then a fox got TC. At least he went fast. Fox don't let their catch live once they get hold of it. They have to transport it quietly. __________________ The Clock of life is wound but once, And no man has the power, To tell just when the hands will stop On what day or what hour. Now is the only time we have, So live it with a will, Don't wait until tomorrow, The hands may then be still. Last edited by gorillamom; 12-07-2007 at 05:42 PM.
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jowey Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 963 Blog Entries: 22 Thanks: 14 Thanked 13 Times in 10 Posts	A pet squirrel, Henry, visited our household for a couple of weeks. He was a wild little tyke. He climbed us like a tree scurrying under our clothes so fast you could not stop him. What was unnerving was that he liked to nibble, with their incisor a nibble usually breaks skin. So he would perch on our shoulder and one would worry about him becoming affectionate with ones ear - pierced..... Eventually he stayed outside and would return infrequently so we would put nuts out. Much later we put a bird feeder out in the middle of the yard. The squirrels were all over it, kind of fun to watch. But then one day we returned from errands when we let our dogs out, an eagle was on our deck overlooking the feeder. This was one of those whoa, experiences as that huge wingspan opened up...... .......new meaning to feeding the birds. __________________ A long standing member of the "Moronic Order of Singularity" O homines ad servitutem paratos...Emperor Tiberius Sun Tzu on the Art of War - the oldest military treatise in the world (6th century BC) Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
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jdanton Puddy Tat Watch Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: NJ Posts: 3,775 My Mood: Thanks: 38 Thanked 51 Times in 38 Posts	My friend had a squirrel follow him home from the local park one day. For about a week he could go into the back yard, hold his hand out (palm up) and call the squirrel and the squirrel would come down from the trees and sit on his hand. then the squirrel disappeared. My mom found a baby blue jay and nursed it to health. We'd leave the kitchen window open and he'd fly in every day just about noon and take a shower in the kitchen sink. __________________ Author: Memoirs of a Sleepless Mind, a book you CAN judge by its cover.
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