Red Squirrel - Bird Feeder Thief

This is the little bugger that eats all the cookies I put out for the birds.

You can see him here in eating an oatmeal cookie, the last one left in the small 'snack' cage feeder. It was full and I watched him take the other cookies and run off with them before coming back and sitting on a branch to eat this one. When he looks right at the camera, it's because I made a squirrel sound. I was kneeling on the ground just three feet from the tree when I video taped this.

He's not afraid and I've been less than two feet from the feeder when he's been munching in it. He's so cute that I don't mind letting him eat what he wants.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• squirrel
• feeder
• cookies
• wildlife

[shpshftr66]

Isn't he, though? I call him, "His Badness". LOL Do you guys have red or gray squirrels? I know when we were in NYC in 2008 there were gray squirrels everywhere you looked in the parks. I never saw a red one, though.

[saberclawproductions]

LOL....he is so cute!... the ones that live in my trees are monsters :0 they like to throw nuts at me when I mow the yard.....EVIL!...lol