The Hopeful Little Squirrel

Fox Squirrel

I decided to take a short break from the videos to show you what is perhaps one of the most adorable squirrel pictures ever. After watching this little guy rooting around in the old leaves of the forest floor, I was happy to see him stand up as proud as can be and give me a great pose for the camera, complete with a very nice smile.

This is actually my first post about squirrels in months. I purposely stopped writing about them awhile ago to give everyone a bit of a break. It was shortly after that that the squirrels decided that it was time to finally find their warm places for the rest of the winter. Maybe they felt snubbed by my lack of writing about them.

And now, just as the other animals are doing, the squirrels are coming back out to enjoy the warmth of this early spring-like weather. This is the very first squirrel I've seen on the ground in at least a month, and it's very clear that he was ready for me when I got there.

Fox Squirrel's Hind End

After I got plenty of pictures of that one pose that he seemed to like very much, he went back to his digging around for a nice spring meal, probably acorns from last fall. They really seem to be enjoying them right now since they have become uncovered. It's much easier to find them under a blanket of leaves than a blanket of snow.

Most of the squirrels still don't seem ready to come down out of the trees yet though. They seem to be content to bide their time in the treetops for now. They don't quite trust this early spring yet, but I see more coming down every day. Soon this little nature and hiking park will once again become the squirrel paradise that it has always been.