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I watched this squirrel scoot up the utility pole and stop on the lines to have a bite.



Before I could say "secret rendezvous," dessert appeared in the form of a second squirrel -- shameless little rodents! They'll get up to most anything in plain sight, just like, I dunno... raccoons, or something.



After a bit of canoodling, the two squirrels went their separate ways. The first one went back down to ground level the same way it had gone up. Back to work maybe?

Squirrels seem to live by the motto: "out of line-of-sight, out of mind." Maybe they believe they can't be seen by whatever they don't look at? But this squirrel gave me a look that told me it knew it was busted. Click the images to enlarge them.

Another squirrel? Didn't we do one of those already? Yes, but this one's different. It's squirrel-y in a different way. This one was more-or-less staying put on it's perch, though it turned through the compass -- stopping at each point to make a bit of clicky noise, but not yelling like the obviously wired squirrel. Is it possible there are Moslem squrrels who need to called to prayer? Probably not. Click the images to enlarge them.

I heard a strange, new, sound today, I was in a back alley, collecting my bottle- and can-shaped nuts and berries, on my way eastward to cash in at a bottle depot. The sound stopped me in my tracks. Kind of a click, click, click -- screech! I thought it was a bird, but it wasn't. It was a squirrel on an overhead transmission wire. Both an unusual sight, and sound. I stalked the squirrel with my new Nikon camera, and considered what might be up with this little shrieking rodent.