Linc! Lincoln! Where are you? … Folks, have you seen my baby?
Shh! Don’t move!
Lincoln, you little rascal. Is that you?
Heh-heh, I think I can outrun the old lady.
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Searchin’ for my baby squirrel,
Lookin’ o’er de whole wide worl’.
Lincoln! Lincoln! Where are you?
See the trials you put me through.
Askin’ every dame and gent,
“Do y’all know where delinquent?”
June 26, 2017 at 9:23 pm
He’s a cute little nipper! My rabbits were missing for a few days and I was concerned about them, but they reappeared again today. I guess it was just a short vacation.
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June 26, 2017 at 9:28 pm
They like to give their parents a fright now and then just to see if someone loves them.
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June 26, 2017 at 9:27 pm
he so cute!! 😊
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June 26, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Yeah, squirrels really are cute. I try not to think about the bird eggs they eat. They have to eat something!
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June 26, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Such sweet photos! Love your little poem as well. Nicely done. 🙂
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June 26, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Thanks, Sonja. The squirrels were a bit far away so had to use the zoom and that always makes for a bit of fuzz on the pics, but they were cute little guys.
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June 26, 2017 at 10:46 pm
Great 🙂
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June 26, 2017 at 10:58 pm
Thank you, Hans.
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June 27, 2017 at 1:48 am
Lovely. He sure is cute. 😊
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June 27, 2017 at 6:57 am
And so saucy!
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June 27, 2017 at 2:07 am
We’ve had a ton of juvenile squirrels running around our property. Perhaps Lincoln is among them? 🙂
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June 27, 2017 at 6:58 am
He does get around!!!
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June 27, 2017 at 5:37 am
Awww – love squirrels 🙂
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June 27, 2017 at 6:58 am
They seem to interact with people more readily than a lot of other “wild” animals.
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June 27, 2017 at 5:48 am
De-linc-went? Anneli, I haven’t had such a good laugh in a long time. Love what you do with words. And you’re getting very good with that camera, too. 🙂
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June 27, 2017 at 7:00 am
I wondered if anyone would “get it” or if it was just tooooo silly. So much fun though. 😉
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June 27, 2017 at 6:14 am
Little tease. Ivy would jump half way up that tree and make promises of “squirrel chowder”.
Inquisitive little face on dear Linc!!
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June 27, 2017 at 6:59 am
He had that shocked look on his face when he first saw me. So cute.
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June 27, 2017 at 7:21 am
Thanks, Anneli, for sharing these lovely pictures and the funny story. 🙂
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June 27, 2017 at 7:25 am
I’m disappointed in the fuzziness of the mother squirrel photos but the other guy was better. Thanks for checking in, Pit. Have a great day.
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June 27, 2017 at 12:39 pm
lol oh man this was so cute, i love it.lol
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June 27, 2017 at 12:41 pm
i cant figure out how to upload pics. into my blog. can u help me?
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June 27, 2017 at 1:05 pm
On the page where you are writing your blog post, just under the title on the left there is a + sign with a circle around it. If you hover on it it says “Add Media.” Click that and it opens up to a page where you can choose what you want to do. Also, in the help or support section of WordPress are subjects you can choose (or a place where you can search) for help and they have very good tutorials for whatever you need. Good luck.
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June 27, 2017 at 1:38 pm
oh ok thank u so very much.
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June 27, 2017 at 1:43 pm
If you can find the tutorials, they’re very helpful and you can play them over and over if you need to repeat the instructions. That’s how I got started. Hope they work for you. You can also contact WordPress support and type in your question and they’ll help you. They’re very good that way.
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June 28, 2017 at 6:52 am
Hee hee, such a cutie.
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June 28, 2017 at 6:55 am
Thanks, Mary. I was just visiting your post and I love the horse pics, especially the close up of the black one. It looks great in b/w/ too.
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June 28, 2017 at 1:34 pm
Your squirrels are the cutest!
Looks like an adventure in your own backyard. I love this time of year when all the critters are about.
Thanks for bringing this to the party! Have fun!
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June 28, 2017 at 3:59 pm
Thanks, Susie. The squirrels don’t usually stay long but I love seeing them. They like the trees, but they don’t like the two spaniels that lurk around below them on the ground.
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June 29, 2017 at 8:31 am
Our squirrels chatter at Roxy too!
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June 29, 2017 at 9:36 am
Of all the little furbearing animals that come close to us in our semi-rural area (squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, deer [sort of fur…]) it’s the squirrels that interact with us most. I think that’s one of the reasons we find them so endearing.
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June 28, 2017 at 5:44 pm
That was so fun! Enjoying my visits from the blog party! https://unbreakablejoyintuitiontales.com/
Gotta go check out more of your stuff.
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June 28, 2017 at 7:46 pm
He is so cute and you described his emotion and action vividly!
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June 28, 2017 at 7:50 pm
He is a cutie, isn’t he? He looked so surprised in one picture.
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June 28, 2017 at 9:49 pm
Just Gotta love up those babes of nature. I am always putting out shelled raw almonds under the huge pine, cherry and cottonwood trees for the nesting Mothers when these babes are born so the mothers don’t have to search far off from their tree nests. One day the word got out, and we had had about 20 or so squirrels chasing each other around behind our home. Thanks for sharing the poem and pictures.
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June 28, 2017 at 10:23 pm
That’s great that you feed them at the time they need it most. I love watching (and listening to) squirrels. They’re such characters.
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June 29, 2017 at 2:06 am
In my observations of nature over the past half a Century’s time of my life span I have seen much of Nature’s love, and within resent years I have read many haters’ as well as ‘Know-ers’, comments in the past that’ ‘deer and animals of the forest do not posses ‘Love, that they are not sentient. I have watched a Mother squirrel become a fierce and very capable she warrior in her protecting her baby squirrel from a vicious Feral Tom Cat and severely wound that cat in her and her babies escape.
‘I have seen a nature documentary that was a study of a desert mouse and her baby. The den had a glass wall a window with a hidden video camera filming their lives. At top, the mother desert mouse would exit and rush out to capture desert beetles, for food to bring back down to feed her baby mouse. That baby mouse would patently watch his mother rush out and catch bugs. One time as the baby mouse watched, a rattlesnake stuck his mother killing her and taking her away. That baby mouse ran back down into the den, and it so tormented, leaping about in summer-saults flinging himself over and over again around in pain over the loss of his dear mother. That’s when I realized the Humans were very wrong, and in claiming us as the top of the World in intelligence and the food chain. The Mice, and squirrels and birds, they love their babies, they cry over their lost loved ones, and they are more alive and caring than many human beings have proven themselves not to be. Don’t get me wrong, all creatures of the deserts and forest and seas must eat, and eat they will, but never will I accept the false assumptions that they do not love, or that Human beings are the Greater species.’
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June 29, 2017 at 6:59 am
I agree. We know so little about the real lives of animals. It would do us good to work at becoming more aware.
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June 29, 2017 at 9:43 am
Well, I know from my own experience, especially with my new camera, that it is spmetimes difficult to get the camera focus on the main motif, especially if, as in your pictures, there are so many branches in them. I’m still trying to learn which settings I need for the autofocus and metering in these situations.
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June 29, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Yes, that is exactly the problem. The camera wants to focus on a branch or leaf that is closer to me than the subject I want to have in focus and then it’s blurry. I get a great branch or leaf, but the squirrel is fuzzy.
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June 29, 2017 at 2:38 pm
I found out that with mine I can set the focus as a kind of pinpoint just in the middle. That helps a lot.
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June 29, 2017 at 9:13 pm
I’m still learning. I’ll have to check this out on my camera.
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June 29, 2017 at 1:44 pm
I love this Anneli, and I love the comments you received. Thanks to Pat, I now get the de-LINC-went. Not sure I would have otherwise. Too clever! And I really enjoyed brockbuildersteel’s comment. So many ‘humans’ want to believe that their species is the only one who loves and mothers and cares for its young and others. Just plain observation can tell the real story. And beautiful photos like yours. Summertime Squirrel Watching is wonderful. 🙂
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June 29, 2017 at 8:50 pm
I love squirrels. When I’ve been out mushroom picking, once in a while I’ll have a conversation with a squirrel. You’d be surprised how heated our chats can become.
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June 30, 2017 at 3:44 am
Actually, Anneli, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. 🙂 ❤
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June 30, 2017 at 6:34 am
You’re beginning to get the idea that I have a crazy streak…. Hmmm… and I thought I had hidden it so well. 😉
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June 30, 2017 at 11:17 am
We wild women recognize each other viscerally, Anneli. 🙂 xo
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June 30, 2017 at 7:18 am
Well, I must admit that I’m still learning, and very likely will be for a long time to come. My “problem” is that if I don’y use the camera vry frequently, I forget how to get the settings I need at a certain moment to achieve a special effect. I have to look that up in the manual again.
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June 30, 2017 at 7:20 am
Me too. So that tells us, we have to get out there more often and use our cameras. I try to take my camera along whenever possible or practical. It may take some time, but we’ll figure things out a bit at a time.
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June 30, 2017 at 7:27 am
I hope so, too. And yes, let’s take the camera with us more often.
Have a great weekend,
Pit
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June 30, 2017 at 7:56 am
You too!
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July 4, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Hahaha! That little Lincoln, “Linc” really has a funny human friend! 🙂
I am glad that Pat pointed out the breakdown of the new word spelling’s meaning! 😉 I was relieved of trying to explain it!
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July 25, 2018 at 6:53 am
Den Beitrag habe ich tatsächlich verpasst. Das sind so süße Fotos. Ich liebe Eichhörnchen. Auch dieses Gedicht ich klasse. Du hast mich zum Lachen gebracht. 🙂
Herzliche Grüße,
Martina
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July 25, 2018 at 8:23 am
Always happy to make you smile!
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July 25, 2018 at 8:27 am
😘
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September 5, 2018 at 7:23 pm
David Suzuki could learn from this blog. What fun to start with you Anneli and move on through all the interested readers.
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September 5, 2018 at 9:25 pm
Thanks, Marsha.
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