Great shots everyone!!

I have 2 red squirrels in my yard this winter, usually there is just one but I think this is a mated pair.

Hey, I love all the pictures of squirrels. I have so many squirrels but no pictures of any, sorry. I am really great at taking pictures of my flowers but aweful at trying pics of anything that runs or flies away. I love the red squirrel. We don't have red squirrels here, only grey squirrels.

In MS we call the orange squirrel a fox squirrel. They get twice as big as a grey squirrel. We mostly have the grey squirrel.
Ya'lls photos are goregous. Thanks for sharing on a cold winters days. Mona

Linda & Margaret, Love your photo's!

My old backyard neighbor has a peach tree and lots of citrus trees. The squirrel's never touch the oranges or tangerines but devour her peaches. She has Loquat trees along her property line that produce an abundance of fruit each year and the squirrel's love the little loquat fruits too ... but there's enough of that fruit to feed the entire neighborhood and all the critters too!

I took this video July 2008 when we still lived in our old apartment, it was a very hot summer in the upper 100's and this squirrel just have to quench his thirst too
http://youtu.be/PIh5w_5VcRc

Cute Tarev, love the fountain, too.

Cute pics and cute video!

Here's a list of the US state animals, mammals, etc...

http://www.statesymbolsusa.org...

Another squirrel pic

I guess I'd forgotten that the armadillo was the Texas state small mammal. I used to like them also, until I had to get up most mornings wondering how many holes and whether they had dug up one or more of my plants.

I didn't know we had a state dog.

Didn't know states had a state dog either!

I love the red squirrel also, Rita. It has always been my favorite of the squirrels! I think they are cuter than the gray squirrel.

I wish we had them Red Squirrels here. I get tried of the same Grey Squirrels all the time.

Squirrel pics

Rita,

"I get tried of the same Grey Squirrels all the time." Me too! I would love to just have the red ones!

Bushey tailed rats... yes
here I'm plagued with the eastern gray squirrels.. they climb up the fire escape the 5 floors to the roof.. and then one at a time deliver a nut to my planters.. I get about a pound of them they have stashed away... when I go through my soil before spring planting.. they know my planters will thaw out weeks before the ground.. so they can get an early touch on their food.. I often get oaks sprouting.. and the nearest one is a few blocks away.. I 've had them eat chunks out of a gigantic eppi leaf I was rooting.. we go round and round...
they also have the black ones here

I've never seen a black squirrel before. Nice pic!

They do that to my container also and it drives me nuts!

At our old apartment, I have this succulent which was always being buried by the squirrels. At first I thought it may have toppled over but to be buried, now that requires some effort. Looking at the succulent, I realized, oh I see, maybe the squirrels thought they were burying a peanut coz the texture of the succulent felt like that of a peanut.
That succulent is this Haworthia reinwardtii:



Luckily the plant was resilient enough after being uprooted and buried several times

The black squirrel is very striking.