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Squirrels with Altitude

I’ve always considered myself to be quite animal friendly, and animals quite friendly to me.  Nevertheless, at the south east corner of St James’s Park Lake, I was quite surprised by this.

Squirrel up Leg

I discovered why squirrels are so good at climbing trees.  Those little claws are sharp.

When he or she looked up and realised that this tree had a face, there was a quick scamper off behind a real tree.

Then, would you ~
The Adam and Eve Pub

 it.

There was another one.

Squirrel Further Up Leg

At first I thought this must be the same squirrel, but a close examination of the whiskers shows a variation and there is slightly darker patch at the left shoulder.  I think they must have been siblings and the little scamps were playing “Anything you can do, I can do better”.

Even the geese were surprised.

Surprised Goose

Wha’  the ~.

Still, they were only having fun in their own squirrely way.   Good on them, they make me laugh and I feel quite privileged to have had squirrels up my leg.

There are more squirrels at the Great Nut Heist.