Spring and summer in Finland 2014

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thank you olga, for the videos and images for this message. :loveshower:
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:hi:

Thank you Olga for your awesome photos of squirrels and beautiful videos. :thumbs:
Squirrels in their new fur the look lovely. ♥♥♥
Thank you also spatz for your magnificent photos of your dark squirrel. :2thumbsup:

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Anyway the genre is right, the slice on the left ear looks just the same, and the way how the squirrel is watching straight to the mysterious figure behind the glass reminds me of Mr Mops. Yes, it has to be Mr Mops :loveshower:

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:hi:
Thank you Olga for your lovely video and pictures of Mr Mops. :bow:
I'm very happy that he was back to your feeder. I missed him.
I'm glad that Mr Mops is healthy. He look happy on the second photo.

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Hello :wave:

A new guest at the feeder:

All squirrels are alright, too.

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I was a bit scared. The bird is really quite big! :laugh:

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:hi:

Thank you Olga for lovely pictures and video of Wood Pigeon. :bow:
It beautiful and shy bird.
I saw only a few times this wonderful bird. It ate blueberries in the forest. :D

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Olga -- my first thought was wow -- that bird is HUGE. :shock:
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:wave: Nice to hear from you and the squirrels! What an interesting guest you had too! We saw (or see) wood pidgeons at the Alutaguse bear cam, a couple is around recently quite often and if the crows or ravens are there, one can make out how big they are!
Our squirrels are also busy, hardly have time to look. But I still see them almost every day. The other day I also saw one crossing the big road when I waited for my bus in the morning :shock: that was scary, it's 4 car lanes and two bus/tram lanes!
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alice44 wrote:Olga -- my first thought was wow -- that bird is HUGE. :shock:
They are huge indeed, much larger than squirrels are.

And our squirrels are somehow still wearing their "winter" uniform, despite summer weather(+29 degrees)
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Great pictures and video of the wood pigeon, and that all squirrels (represented by Mr Mops:) are ok :wave:
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Apple trees blossom.

They are like a cloud and a cream cake:

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:innocent:

Hello, for long time.

Of course I could not stop feeding squirrels. I made a test: what happens if I add a second place to eat! :rotf:
Good, now that there has been two nut service places, no fighting has been seen. If there is some 70 cm between, no quarrel. Only sometimes sometimes does not accept company at all.

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26th May three squirrels at same time:


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31st May
three squirrels again. Normally there is only one, and more often only two, not three squirrels at same time. This is a special case.



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The third one was on the right
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There are tens of videos I have taken, but it just takes too much time to edit all that I would like to. The main thing is, that squirrels are alright, also healthy looking. There seems not to be real reason to deny the nuts they like so much. I'll follow dayly what is happening there at the feeder. I am waiting to see some squirrel babies...

Later in the summer the feeder wall and the window frames shall be painted, and the feeder has to be mover further from my window :unsure: Yes, I have to find some solution for those days, 2-3 days.
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Some screenshots from unedited videos from April:

Charley
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Titian
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Paula, not for sure
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Today in the morning:

5th June a New visitor - it likes to site there and wait till I go away and the it goes closer to the nuts, and.. I can assure it fast!



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Today was again a lively day. I don't know how many different squirrels visited. Now that they are changing fur they are not easty to recognize.
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Two more videos of today:

5th June, a male squirrel. Who :puzzled:




... two squirrels:
the tail of the other one looks very poor, but I don't think it be cause of some 'dangerous'. There are wandering squirres which have lived the winter elsewhere. I have seen all of the familiar squirrels, only Baby face has disappeared. But it is not the first time he can't bee seen for several months.

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This video, from a news form UK, is a must to see :loveshower:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/0 ... 49601.html
Posted: 06/04/2014

When Rick Gruber saw a squirrel drowning in a pool last month, he did something most people would never consider: he pulled the tiny animal out of the water and performed CPR.

"C'mon little guy. You can't die," Gruber, a pool repairman who lives in Phoenix, Ariz., told the waterlogged squirrel as he tried reviving it.

In an hour-long YouTube video that captures the rescue, Gruber can be seen draping the adorable critter -- which, according to CNN, is a round-tailed ground squirrel -- over a plastic pipe before gently pressing on its ribcage in an attempt to find its lungs.

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I found this news and video today from a Finnish newspaper.
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They are all so cute.
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5th June:

Titian but not 100%




A Woodpigeon couple

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5th June:

Mops Jr alone:



Mops Jr not alone :shock: :

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