Reader Diane G. is really good at finding AnimalCams, and this one, a squirrelcam from Budapest, is good. I’m not sure whether these long-eared cuties are European red squirrels (which bear the inappropriate Latin name of Sciurus vulgaris) or what—as I don’t know from squirrels—but they’re cute as hell and you can watch them nom at the feeder. As Diane notes, “Usually shows more birds than squirrels, but the squirrels that appear are adorable.” Click on the screenshot below to see the action at the Mókus Kamera:
Boy, that guy sure does look Hungary.
He’s nothing But a pest?😄
I was ready with two Hungarian squirrel puns, Danube guys made both of them! Nuts.
It’s enough to magyar cry. 🙂
Sorry, goulashed me with that one. I’m kidding – touchè!
You guys must all be tippling this morning, because this all sounds like Bartók.
What! That’s a good one! I thought we’d done all the Hungaryan puns – yours wasn’t even on my Liszt!
I don’t want to Rubik in.
I waltzed right into this!
Not tippling this morning, but readers have yesterday afterning’s two games of top-class international rugby, and all that came with it, to blame for the following:
How does a pre-digital age Hungarian ledger clerk tot up the numbers?
Row Biro!
OMG the cute squirrel is eating seeds right now. Look those fuzzy ears! I want to pat them!
Looks to me like this is indeed the European red squirrel. I wish we had those here.
And most of us in Europe wish that we didn’t have the North American grey squirrel here.
Possibly not as bad as North Americans…
We’re obnoxious, sure, but we bring those lovely slips of paper with the dead presidents on them – and everybody loves those! Literally, a silver lining.
Those of us living in Europe have not seen the archetypal American Tourist for many years. They seem to have been replaced with Chinese and Japanese.
Hey! North America includes Canada and Mexico!
You might enjoy this collection of birdcams.
Sorry, it’s all in dutch but easy enough to navigate…
http://www.beleefdelente.nl/
Thanks!
Takes me back to my days as a paid up member of the Tufty Club.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/tufty-club
🐾🐾
The squirrel was lovely last night (EST), and this morning the beautiful little birds are having a feast! (European siskins, Spinus spinus?)
… error — maybe Eurasian siskin? (Carduelis spinus?)
I was looking mostly at other cams this morning, so can’t be sure. I know that when I first started watching European feeder cams the birds I wanted to call siskins turned out to be Greenfinches, Chloris chloris. (Which recently was Carduelis chloris.)
I see this (IMO, annoyingly named) species frequently at this site. This is also where I saw my first Jays and Hawfinches.
(My European Field Guide calls many birds by just one name–Jay, Nuthatch, Blackbird, etc., but I imagine that the US appends “European” before each of them. It would be easy to look that up but I’m too lazy ATM.)