Picture Perfect Squirrel

While there’s little disagreement that squirrels cane be a bane to practitioners of backyard bird feeding, it is sometimes (I said “sometimes”) quite difficult to put aside how charming they can be.

As the snow was falling steadily all day here in northwest Oregon, I took to throwing handfuls of seed on the ground for the thrushes, juncos, doves, and yes, the local population of Douglas’ Squirrels. The reward was not only some fine winter portraits of the local birds but a few Christmas card image quality squirrel pictures as well.