#SilentSunday near #LikaLodge : forest strawberries , May blossoms , young trees & wild flowers : overwhelm of tastes, touch & fragrances : almost unbearable happiness!
Couple of iPhone shots, taken at Crab Cove in Alameda yesterday. These are California Ground Squirrels, and they live in the rocks at the edge of the beach there. Not quite tame, but very used to people so they let you get reasonably close (close enough to get clear photos with the iPhone 15 Pro 3x camera).
These were taken using portrait mode, providing artificial depth of field.
It regularly destroys my bird feeder, or knocks it to the ground, but when I go out to admonish it, the thing just comes up to me looking for peanuts. Hard to remain angry with something this cute, especially when it’s likely just hungry too.
Squirrels are little bad asses! They’ll run along power lines 30 feet in the air, then jump to a power pole, and invert their body so they’re positioned head towards the ground. They “stand” there, just casually looking at the ground, mulling over what they’re going to snack on next, or planning their next nap.