Here's an exceptionally nice photo of our local squirrel. He spends all his time chittering madly at both people and cats even though I keep telling him that nobody is even interested in his stupid pine cones. But he doesn't believe us. He probably never will.
We have a couple of black squirrels that live, I suppose, in the neighbors pine tree. I’d never seen a black squirrel before, but it appears they aren’t uncommon.
(Un) natural selection. Semi urban environments have fewer predators so they don’t have to blend as well. And the humans (generally) think them cuter so give more hand outs.
Related to that, circa 2008 there were two squirrels, one grey, one black. They were always coming to my father’s back door in NW DC, looking for hand outs. My father named them Hillary and Barack.
(They usually got what they were looking for. This from a man who in his younger days railed about squirrels digging up his bulbs, and who would trap them and exile them across the Potomac river, in Virginia.)
In my home town in Wisconsin, most of the squirrels were gray, and the black ones were kind of rare, so it was always exciting to see one (much less a pair!)
Very nice! The Nature Conservancy would be proud of this one.
You don't think that squirrel is worried about his pine cone? He's scolding you for harboring cats.
And if you have a lone squirrel, maybe there has been an outbreak of West Nile Virus there. There used to be quite a few black squirrels here, but today was the first time I've seen one for months.
Didn't mean to include the "don't."
When all your world is pine cones everyone else are nuts…
Kevin tries to explain to the squirrel that he isn't interested in the squirrel's pine cones. If Kevin could speak Squirrel, he would know that the squirrel isn't interested in Kevin's Ukraine, either. The squirrel says at least Kevin knows what pine cone is, and has seen it first hand, while the squirrel has never seen Ukraine and doesn't expect to.
Yet, the longer the crisis continues, the more likely his (the squirrel’s) cousins in Ukraine will be known as dinner…
Finally put my finger on it,
that squirrel looks exactly like Randy Quaid.