Friday, May 29, 2020

Squirrel!

The biggest difference in local wildlife between back in Georgia and Tennessee and here was the squirrels.

The local squirrel population in Broad Ripple when I moved here seemed to be entirely made up of humongous red fox squirrels, which hadn't been a common sight in the piney woods on the shores of Fort Loudon Lake.

Sony a7 II, 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS

Lately, though, gray squirrels like this little fella have been moving into the neighborhood. Last year there were only a couple spotted in and around the huge oaks down around the south end of our block, but by this summer they've been spotted foraging as far north as the neighbor's lawn just to our south.

Nikon D5000, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR II