The American Red Squirrel
The American Red Squirrel, We had a touch of blue sky’s today making for a colorful background for this little guys picture today.
The most noticeable characteristics of the American red squirrel are the tail and the eye ring. The tree squirrel’s tail is bushy and dark red with hints of a white outline. The eye ring is a thick, white circle around the rodent’s black eyes.
American red squirrels are about 12 inches and have grayish, red, or rust-colored fur with a white belly. Sometimes a black stripe can be seen on the sides.
43 Replies to “The American Red Squirrel”
Very cute Sandra – I wish a few would head to my neck of the woods. That white eye ring is striking, almost like you see with birds.
Yes, they are so cute. We hung a bird house above one of the feeders and I saw this squirrel go into it yesterday. I did not think it would fit but it did. He has a new winter home now.
Oh, I bet he is happy … big enough to go in and out to forage or scam some bird seed but small enough to curl up in to sleep. He lucked out.
wonderful
Thank you 🙂
Beautiful photos and colors – the warm red fur and the blue sky – love it! I love the red squirrels – we don’t have many around here.
Thank you very much Cheryl.🙂
These are great pictures. I might use one of them on my new product,, Mr. Ohh!’s Canned Squirrel Stew😂😊🤞
What do you think?
Keep Laughing
How many squirrels can a canned squirell stew? 😂😳
I invite them over for a five martini lunch. That gets them pretty stewed
lol 😏
What a cutie! Great pics!
Thank you very much. 🙂
so cute
Thank you very much Seraja.🙂
Love the photos, they’re so cute! Love watching squirrels, they’re very funny 🙂
Me to Maria, always entertaining. 🙂
Very cute!! Thanks for telling 😀
You are very welcome. 🙂
Cute 🐿️
They sure are.🙂
Great pictures as always. I usually see red squirrels chasing the much larger grey squirrels. Those little guys are really mean.
Yes, those bigger squirrels are always chasing each other. And then my dog chases them down the fence line. 🙂
Wonderful photos! Squirrels are so much fun to watch and to compete with over benches in the park 🙂 Years ago, when I had a yard and bird feeders and battled squirrels constantly, I finally gave up and simply scattered seeds for them on the ground. Everyone was happy and had plenty to eat. Have you ever seen an Abert’s squirrel in Colorado? I prefer to call them vampire squirrels LOL!
Thank you Mary, yes I do that also. The squirrels leave the feeders alone when I scatter seed on the ground. Some else mentioned the the abert squirrel and I looked it up. I have never seen one before, so different from the regular squirrels.
Contemporary Scrat! Cutie!
Thanks, Sandra. Have a great day.
You also Francine, 🙂 thank you
Very cute. Do you know what their range is? Don’t you have grey squirrels in your area too? We only have grey squirrels in central VA. I have seen red squirrels out in Pacific Grove, CA, on the Monterey peninsula.
Yes, they are found mostly in the north part of the states and Canada. I am up north right now, but down in Iowa is where the bigger more colorful squirrels are like the grays. 🙂
Thanks!
Lovely pics. Very different to our British Red Squirrel which is a glorious rusty red all over with tufted ears and a very bushy tail.
Yours sounds beautiful as well, this one is mostly a red stipe down his back and tail.
What a cutie! Looks exactly like Chip. Or Dale. 🙂
Yes, very much so Jo, 🙂
They are so cute. Once I was in Davos (Switerland), the squirrels where so used to people, the came to eat out of our hand.
I have heard of that, I have never had one do that for me though, these little guys are pretty skittish. 🙂
Lovely photos as always. I am waiting for our Belgian red squirrels to sit still for an instant so I can photograph them 😆 They are different to yours, no eye ring, and often with blacker fur.
Yes, it is hard to get them to sit still, unless I am far enough away than they just ignore me. 🙂
SQUIRREL!
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I love that part of that movie. 🙂
Oh my gooooodness.. makes my heart smile!
When you had this guy in the picture the other day I meant to ask what type he was. I’ve seen grey and black squirrel. There is a kind that lives in the forest here but I’ve only ever seen one once, and that is Abert’s Squirrel.
I just looked that squirrel up, and oh so pretty. I have never seen anything like that one Herb. 🙂