Little Gray

This little squirrel has taken up residence in a bird house in my yard. He has it all, two exits for safety, all the food he could ever want with some variety to it, and a warm dry house. Red squirrels are not the most common squirrel here, mostly I have the larger gray squirrels, but this little guy chases them away. He is not even afraid of the crows that steal the suet cakes from the feeder (they fly away with the entire suet cage). He used to be more gray brown but he is turning the more customary red ochre. He sometimes will run around the snow piles in a seemingly random pattern and it never fails to amuse me.