Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 23, 2009 at 10:34 am 9 comments
Whoopsie. Wednesday, January 21 was Squirrel Appreciation Day (Hat Tip,
A hot squirrel rests on an 100 degree day in Oakland (Photo by headexplodie)
Squirrel sunning himself (Photo by akahodag)
Squirrel taking advantage of a balcony bean bag chair (Photo by mseckington)
Squirrel appreciating the coolness of fresh, shaded dirt (Photo by mandj98)
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Carolyn | January 23, 2009 at 10:43 am
That bean bag picture makes me want to put a bean bag outside just for the explicit purpose of luring squirrels into that cute position!!!
I’m having cuteness convulsions.
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Carolyn | January 23, 2009 at 10:44 am
As always, talk of squirrels reminds me of Chriggy’s fat squirrel http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriggy/152789263/
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scienceguy288 | January 24, 2009 at 11:13 am
Haha! I love these photos very comical.
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tgaw | January 24, 2009 at 11:16 am
@scienceguy288 – Yay! It is another “Hooray for Creative Commons” moment
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Anne | January 24, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I can’t find the squirrel in the bean bag chair’s head. How come I have so much trouble with animals when they roll in a ball I can always find my dogs heads.
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Carolyn | January 24, 2009 at 5:08 pm
It’s buried under it’s tail.
It is laying counter-clockwise.
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Christina | AmiExpat | January 25, 2009 at 2:57 am
So cute. Oh my gosh! Reminds me of an experiment I ran across back when I was in grad school
http://www.wafu.ne.jp/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html
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Anne | January 25, 2009 at 5:02 am
I like that experiment. Years ago I tried the pinecone with peanut butter rolled in birdseed. I tied 2 of them to trees in the back yard. Squirrel came, didn’t want to eat. Wanted to take home and store. 2 days, they got the staples out and left the cord tied to trees.
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