How I Met Flynn

Today it's time for a prequel. There are some very good movie series that have them. The Star Wars series had prequels. The Exorcist had a couple of them. The Lord Of The Rings will have one in a few years too. I'm sure there are plenty of other movies too, so I think Flynn the famous fox squirrel should also get one. How I Met Flynn.

I happened to be on a routine hike, not expecting to find much of anything. The area I was walking was a good place for squirrels because of all the acorns laying around. The problem was that I was having no luck finding any squirrels yet. That's when I heard a little noise off to my right!

I looked over at a big tree and just saw a little face that was spying on me from the side pull back behind the tree and disappear. I had experience with this behavior so I waited quietly right where I was. After a few false starts the face poppped back out to reveal my new acquaintance.

When Flynn finally understood that I wasn't going to leap over at him and gobble him up he decided to come out from behind the tree to see why I was there. He examined me for quite a few seconds before he finally made another move. Being so much smaller than the other creature isn't an easy thing at all, but he soon got over it.

Here is something I was talking about yesterday. Flynn the fox squirrel had been hanging around on the side of this tree for about a minute when he finally decided to move down to the ground. Just before he did his quick little squirrel turn he squinted his eyes like that.

I don't know if this is what every squirrel does before it makes a move, but he did it every time. I think this is something I'm going to watch for from now on. This was probably the first time I was ever able to watch a squirrel this closely to see something like this. I hope it's not the last.

The picture is a little blurry because he was right in the middle of turning his head. Compare it with the top picture.

This picture above is the very next picture. As soon as he gave that little squint he darted onto the ground. This obviously isn't the best of the pictures of him but I wanted to demonstrate what I was talking about with his squinty eyes.

When he got down onto the forest floor he ran in a wide turn behind the tree again only to emerge on the other side. It was there that he began to search for acorns. After finding that first one, he started performing for the camera just as I showed you for the past several days.

He wanted me to keep taking pictures, but I was the one who finally decided to stop. I had to move onto other adventures so off I went.I walked down the trail and around a turn. As I walked back around the other side of that tree and down towards the lake I looked back up the hill to where he was when I left him.

There he was right where I left him! My zoom lense is the only thing that let me get this clear picture of him. I actually took a total of ten more pictures of him sitting in that exact same pose before I moved on again. He never moved once. He must have been very tired from that long photo shoot.

This is the very last picture I took of Flynn the fox squirrel, and the last time I saw him. I wonder what he's doing now.