Squirrel zoomed in from my kitchen window yesterday. I suppose he was looking for something edible among the brown leaves. (Whether he found anything, I can't say!)
The coat of the red squirrel varies in colour with time of year and location. It sheds its coat twice a year, switching from a thinner summer coat to a thicker, darker winter coat with noticeably larger ear-tufts (a prominent distinguishing feature of this species) between August and November. /Wikipedia/
Looks to me like this one has put on its winter coat!
What a gorgeous little creature. I didn't know they changed their coats for the winter. Our greys are grey all year round.
ReplyDeleteI thought this looked like a Red Squirrel, but the coat was the wrong color. Now I know why. The greys are pushing the reds out all over this country.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to have a stable population of Red Squirrels here, and I often see them on the trees around my house or on the ground, sometimes rushing across the road not far away from me. The one I saw most recently on the weekend was still sporting a beautiful autumnal rusty brown-red coat, but I guess it's only a matter of time before it will have to don its winter coat, too.
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