Celebrating today’s winter solstice the best way possible, with pictures from yesterday’s Christmas Squirrel Count at Presque Isle State Park. Total count: 2. A very cute and very red Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) at the Beach 8 parking lot.
Christmas Squirrel Count
Thank you, Team Leader, for not counting birds. Who needs them? Squirrels are cuter!
Yes, squirrels are cuter! And furrier! It’s too bad there are only a couple species locally, otherwise it would be “all squirrels, all the time.”
However, the squirrel did ‘fly’ on the 2nd from the last photo….does that make it part bird???
I guess a flying squirrel might quality, but even then it’s not flying but rather a controlled fall. Maybe a glide at best. But even the local squirrels are very adapt at jumping from branch to branch and tree to tree.