Squirrel Sunday with some Feathered Friends

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Squirrel Sunday with some Feathered Friends
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The squirrels are out and about trying to get as fat as possible before winter hits.

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I think someone gave him an almond, he better eat it fast before another squirrel sees him. They like to steal each other's food all the time. 

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This was the first shot I got of him. In the orange fall leaves he blends in pretty well but his loud chewing gave away his location. 

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He has a pretty good niche here for eating. Fortunately he was too busy enjoying the almond to allow me to get plenty of different angles. 

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Meanwhile at the lake even the vine leaves are starting to turn bright colors. I almost got a good chipmunk photo here but he ran off the rocks right as I clicked the photo. At least the leaves salvaged the image. 

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The lake was quite busy today. During fall lots of water birds gather here during their migration south. Most of these are just mallards but there are a few wood ducks in there as well.

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The Canadian Geese are here year round even when the lake is frozen over. I wonder what they even eat in winter? They seem to survive well enough.

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The sparrows were loaded up in these wild roses probably feasting on rose hips. 

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Its always nice when birds pose for you without being backlit by the sun. I wish all the rare birds would do this lol. Hopefully tomorrow there will be more migrating birds out. If not I can always rely on seeing sparrows posing for practice shooting. 

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)










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