SQUIRREL

[deird1]

Just had a red squirrel run past my window, examine the porch, realise I was there, freeze, and run off again.

I SAW A SQUIRREL. FROM LIKE A METRE AWAY.

*dances*

Comments

[shehasathree]

eee!

[deird1]

Yay!

[petzipellepingo]

Do they not have squirrels in Australia? Is that why it's exciting?

[deird1]

That's the one, yes. Squirrels are something I've only seen in storybooks.

[thirdblindmouse]

It's funny to me to think of squirrels being exotic, except... I've never seen a red squirrel in person, and they look ridiculously cute in photographs. Yay, squirrels!

[velvetwhip]

You'd love Idaho. I see squirrels running all over my yard every single day.


Gabrielle

[beer_good_foamy]

And now you know how Europeans feel the first time they see a kangaroo and a wallaby share a bikkie next to a billabong outside Wallamaloo. :)

[immer_am_lesen]

Awesome! :-)

I think European red squirrels are so much cuter than the brown/ black ones- I think it's the tufty little ears that do it. :-)
(Also, I don't think the red ones get rabies like the American ones do?)

I'll add a link here to my favourite little eichhörnchen from my childhood- Eichhorn Puschel! I remembered this theme song from being four years old...*that's* how cool it is. :-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbyvHIRn9A