A Little Squirrely

I'm back again with another series of pictures of my friend the performing fox squirrel. All of those poses seems to have tired him out, not to mention eating all of those acorns he ate while he was doing it. He got so exhausted that he just had to take a rest right there in the middle of the photo shoot. Well actually he just kind of dropped.

I guess it really isn't easy being a performing squirrel. I've heard rumors that this little guy does more than pose for pictures. He's a regular adventurer among squirrels. I guess he'll do just about anything to get attention. All the other squirrels really seem to love him because of what a big star he is.

Here he is trying to do an odd pose. He told me he was trying to put his hind leg up over his neck, but I suspect he just had an itch. He actually rubbed up against that branch a few times, but I was too polite to say anything. I guess being an adventurer that's also a rodent could probably give you a bad case of fleas. I wouldn't know anything about that though since I'm not a squirrel.

Here he is after a long day of posing from the camera taking his final bow. He was very proud of himself for this great event. After all, he was the center of attention once again. He figured that since he was already a star among the squirrels, he was going to expand his horizons by going world wide. No autographs please.

Here's something I noticed that seems odd to me. Whenever he began to move he would close his eyes like this. For instance, when he would turn to run. I saw him do this three times. I also have the pictures, just like this, and he would squint likethat every time he was ready to make a big move.

He did this several times, moving off of a branch to go back down to look for acorns. Then he would come back up with his acorn and begin doing more poses and looking at me. I really wish I could show them all to you, but there's only so many days I can feature him here. Just this post today was very difficult for me to choose five photos.

Here he is right after the squint! This was one of the last photos I took of him. Before he came back I decided it was time to wrap it up. In my post from a few days ago I showed you a picture of him leaping up onto the branch; now here he is leaping back down. We're all lucky he was polite with his tail.

As I began to walk away I turned and asked him his name. He said, "Flynn, simply Flynn." Yup, in case you haven't already guessed, I can speak squirrel language. The translation always comes out sounding odd though. Picture it in your mind; a human disguised as a rat that talks to squirrels. Perfectly normal.

Tomorrow I'll wrap up this encounter with Flynn by giving you a little prequel. I'm going to tell you the story of how I first met him that day. See you then!