There’s a huge grey squirrel that lives in my folk’s back yard… It climbs up on the porch to snag food and water from the supplies set out for the birds.
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\nI’ve been trying to get a photo of it for a while. At first I thought it was just incredibly shy, but now I know better. It’s a fiend. It can sense the presence of a camera. If there are people around, it doesn’t mind taking a drink or stealing some food… If there’s a camera around, it’ll flee. Even better, it can sense if the camera is functional or not. I was sitting there with dead batteries and it was scampering around without a care… As soon as fresh batteries were popped in, away it went.<\/p>\n
Grr.<\/p>\n
I’ll get it sooner or later… And even if I don’t I’ve got some photos of more stationary wildlife that I’ll post either later tonight or tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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