It’s lovely to sit in the warm sun in our Delhi garden: as we drink our tea, drongos, mynahs, and parrots fly overhead, and the afternoon is punctuated by the birdlike twittering of the striped palm squirrels. They’re everywhere, including one in the photo below. Can you spot it? It’s not very hard.
There really seem to be only one squirrel. I’m almost disappointed. 😉
Can I be the first to say – it’s just to the left of the nightjar.
Also, sub, err, banana.
There are 17 days till Squirrel Appreciation Day, and the palm squirrel posts are already filling me with the spirit! It’s nuts!
And is that tree a cassia? Those are some impressive seed pods!
Indian Mynah in da house: http://www.getfarming.com.au/cdt/uploads/54006/features/5400620120809122001.jpg
That squirrel is mostly tail!
…aren’t they all…?
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Awww…poor guy! Looks like he won’t be getting any tail any time soon….
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It reminds me of an old swedish children’s book about a cat without a tail. Pelle Svanslös ( Haleløs in danish ).
Good times. 🙂
There is some German book for kids about a squirrel too. I can’t remember what it’s called.
I was a compulsive reader as a child. Anything with animals! 🙂
Pelle Schwanzlos?
Oh no! Poor squirrel must’ve escaped something dangerous!
It had a feeling it got tailed and ran really hard!
Where is it?
On the right, about two-thirds up the long dark trunk to the left of the pic. As Diana says, it just looks like a long fluffy tail!
“It’s lovely to sit in the warm sun in our Delhi garden: as we drink our tea, drongos, mynahs, and parrots fly overhead, and the afternoon is punctuated by the birdlike twittering of the striped palm squirrels.”
Ah, what a life!