Southern Red Squirrel


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On Brownsea Island, where along with the Isle of Wight they have been sufficiently isolated o from their Grey counterpart to thrive.
14/09/2015 - 22:31dcweather
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autumnlight

Link Posted 14/09/2015 - 23:25
Lovely to see a Red and a super capture
Kind regards Maria

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davidwozhere

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 01:31
autumnlight wrote:
Lovely to see a Red and a super capture

+1
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Daronl

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 07:12
Great photo ; to see one is an ambition of mine,

Congratulations, super shot

Regards
Daronl

GIULIO57

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 09:06
10 out of 10
PPG

tyronet2000

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 15:27
GIULIO57 wrote:
10 out of 10

from me too
Regards
Stan

PPG

RobL

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 17:57
A beautiful capture, nicely lit and in context. Just saw a news item yesterday that where pine martens are expanding their territory the grey squirrels are retreating and red squirrels taking over. Apparently the pine martens are squirrel predators and the greys are too slow whereas the reds are smaller and nimbler, having evolved to cope with the pine martens. Interesting eh?

reso

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 20:10
great shot 11 out of 10
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Puffacake

Link Posted 15/09/2015 - 21:58
Beautifully captured and lovely light. One of my favourite places to visit.
Kind regards, Yvonne

dcweather

Link Posted 16/09/2015 - 22:49
RobL wrote:
A beautiful capture, nicely lit and in context. Just saw a news item yesterday that where pine martens are expanding their territory the grey squirrels are retreating and red squirrels taking over. Apparently the pine martens are squirrel predators and the greys are too slow whereas the reds are smaller and nimbler, having evolved to cope with the pine martens. Interesting eh?

Very interesting. It would be nice to redress the balance a bit

dcweather

Link Posted 16/09/2015 - 22:53
Thanks for the nice comments. Funny how it works out. Some were slightly tamer near the feeders but none of those were particularly inspiring. This was a chance shot as I was walking along a remoter path and I just saw it looking from up in the tree. Thought it would be rubbish against the sky but as is often the way the surprise ones are the best!
Dave
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