did the little guy get away?
squirrels are awesomely smarter than most people recognize
OUCH!
LOL! Never underestimate the ability to fight for your freedom, I guess.
the Owl is Obama, and the Squirrel is flyover country.
How humiliating for the owl! LOL!
And when they get in your attic and start eating your electrical cables and your house burns down, they are even worse than deer [the worst you can expect from a deer is that when you hit it at 65MPH, it will come through the windshield and kill you instantly].
PS: Had to stop midsentence as I was typing because I saw a squirrel out the window and had to go shoot it. Caught it on the run and required three shells to put him completely out of his misery.
PPS: Have noticed that since I went on this mission to eradicate all of the squirrels around here, we are now seeing some gorgeous & exceptionally large red-headed woodpeckers in our nut trees which I have never seen before now - I think the squirrels were crowding them out of the ecosystem, but now they feel safe to move back in.
Squirrels are vermin. Eradicate them.
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There’s a squirrel in our back yard that terrorizes our dog ALL THE TIME. He sits up in one or another of the trees and throws things down at the dog. And hits him with some those things.
Then he jumps from tree to tree, and runs along the 6’ high wood fence, just teasing the dog.
My neighbor says he uses his .22 with low power ammunition to shoot the squirrels in his trees. I’m tempted to hire my neighbor for a day.
That is a fantastic series of photographs. I am also a photographer, so please, please, please - next time give the citation to the owner of the works in the comment or the headline. We hate to see our works posted without credit due. However, thank you for posting the link citation, but most will not follow it, so crediting the photographer and is website first is most appreciated.
Ping!
I have hated squirrels since they got in my attic and stripped the insulation off almost 20 feet of wiring. I gotta get me an owl.
Squirrels are rats with good PR.
But you gotta love watching the little guy fighting back...
I had a fruitless mulberry outside my window when I lived in Big Bear. It had one exceptionally long branch. A squirrel jumped from one of the higher branches onto the long branch, which then swung wildly up and down. After it stabilized the squirrel ran back up the tree and did it again. And again. And again. No one can tell me squirrels do not know how to have fun.
The owl should go get checked for rabies.
Some are looking for squirrel recipes.
We have a big barn cat that tries to kill everything around. One day I saw a tailless squirrel crossing the driveway and the cat had a new toy.