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17 February 2009 Christine Hanrahan

Red squirrel with piece of ice

FWG

I was particularly intrigued by one little squirrel who ran off with a piece of sumac cone in his mouth, only to drop it and pick up a piece of ice. This he proceeded to nibble and lick for a short while, before discarding it for another bit of ice. Over the next three or four minutes, he picked up and nibbled on about 5 different bits of ice. At times it looked like he was licking a popsicle!

Unfortunately, I was some distance off when taking this photo so it is cropped quite a bit and not the greatest.

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
1/1600s f/7.1 at 100.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
Milan Vogrin18-Feb-2009 20:47
Very cute!
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