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Stacey @xstitcher (39011) • Petaluma, California 13 May

It's not very good, but I got my first picture of a squirrel at work. I've seen them running around, and have wanted to get a picture of one since I first saw one. This guy was chowing down on cranberries the kids had dropped at...

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Ohio police officers rescue a squirrel that was entangled in a net

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 9 Oct

Richmond Heights police officers answered an emergency call from a resident about a squirrel who was trapped in a sports net on Thursday evening October 2. The police officer was careful to free the squirrel by carefully cutting...

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A squirrel runs on a baseball diamond in Michigan

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 22 Jun

A squirrel ran onto the baseball diamond in Detroit Michigan on Monday May 26 at the beginning of a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants versus the Detroit Tigers that was played at Comerica Park. The squirrel ran on...

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Stocked up for Wild Life

TaxiLady @Ghostlady (2356) • United States 14 Jun

Got a 20lb bag of bird sees, and they had a bag of corn cobs on sale as the bag broke open, but they taped it shut. Stopped at Walmart, and as usual of all the lines I could have picked..it was behind an old lady who had several...

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Kids and Nature

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 11 Nov 24

I have a 3 year old granddaughter who loves learning in nature. She helps my husband with the chickens. She helps me with gardening and landscaping. She loves walking in the woods and laying on the trampoline watching the clouds....

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I Talk to Squirrels

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 23 Oct 24

I am trying to walk every day. There is a little park not far away. Yesterday, I sat on the bench under a tree and started taking photos of it. A little squirrel would come out and look at me. I pointed the phone in his...

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A nutty year!

Fleur @Fleura (34934) • United Kingdom 18 Sep 24

There are quite a few hazel bushes around here, and baby ones are constantly springing up all over the garden because of the nuts buried by jays and grey squirrels. But in spite of that we hardly ever actually get any nuts these...

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Busy Little Squirrel

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 6 Aug 24

There is a little squirrel who lives near here. He has been running back and forth past our glass doors all day. He is a very busy soul. I can't help but wonder if his nest or house got damaged in the tropical storm. Maybe he is...

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Three seems to be the magic number

Fleur @Fleura (34934) • United Kingdom 4 Mar 24

We have plenty of grey squirrels around here – the invasive ones some short-sighted people imported from America and released almost 150 years ago. They have carried a deadly disease to the native red squirrels and they cause a...

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Squirrel stew

Fleur @Fleura (34934) • United Kingdom 17 Nov 23

So as I said I bought a couple of oven-ready squirrels to try. I had read that there isn’t much meat on a squirrel apart from the haunches, so I was a little bit surprised to find almost a whole squirrel in there (minus the head)....

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Interesting meats

Fleur @Fleura (34934) • United Kingdom 15 Nov 23

At a country show not long ago I found a stall selling a range of interesting meats. I’ve tried quite a lot of different animals in the past – the usual beef, lamb, pork and chicken of course, plus goose, duck, pigeon, turkey,...

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A Lazy Squirrel

Ruby Hawk @RubyHawk (99367) • Atlanta, Georgia 28 Apr 23

Almost every day I see squirrels on the ground or in trees but they always vanish before I can get my phone out, but today I happened upon a lazy squirrel or a tired one. He ran up the tree and stopped to rest on a limb. He...

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A morning visitor to my kitchen window

Pitstop @pitstop (15551) • Australia 4 Nov 22

I stepped in to the kitchen to start making coffee and saw a little squirrel nibbling on something on the kitchen window sill. It's interesting watching these little animals doing their regular stuff. The moment I took the phone...

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A blackout in Virginia caused by a squirrel that hit a circuit breaker

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 13 Sep 22

Bonita Billingsley who is the spokesperson of Dominion Energy mentioned that a squirrel who tampered with electrical equipment at a substation in Virginia Beach last Wednesday morning. The blackout in the Virginia Beach area lost...

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Squirrel knocks out electrical power in North Carolina

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Jun 22

Blame it in another squirrel that has caused 3,000 customers in Asheville North Carolina lose power early in the morning on Wednesday for a period of about a few hours until the engineers from Duke Energy were able to restore...

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Blame it on a squirrel

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 8 Jun 22

This story is very amusing since it is not everyday that a squirrel gets into a news story for interference with a substation in Prior Lake Minnesota that caused a blackout in the area for a period of one hour. Officials with the...

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It bit him

bonnie @bunnybon7 (50970) • Holiday, Florida 17 Apr 22

So many memories came to my mind when I read @DaddyEvil, last post. It's hilarious. About a squirrel he has been trying to keep out of his flower pots on his porch. When my oldest was 14 years old, we lived way out in the...

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A very odd story from Oklahoma

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 2 Oct 21

Oklahoma City resident Dakota Anglin and her husband were not home at the time when a squirrel decided to ring the doorbell to their home recently. The funny thing is that Dakota had a video camera installed in her home to record...

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Animal lovers group makes a bridge for squirrels to travel safely

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 20 Aug 21

Thanks to the efforts of the Cramlington and District Red Squirrel Group in Cramlington, Northcumberland in Great Britain is showing their love for squirrels by raise funds to build a rope bridge over a busy road so that the...

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Kitty woke me at 4 AM with a live present.

The Horse @TheHorse (238275) • Walnut Creek, California 29 Apr 21

Kitty was meowing in my dreams, and there was a peeping sound as well. I woke up and saw that kitty was offering me a baby something, perhaps a squirrel. It was about two-and-a-half inches long and curled up like a fetus. I...

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