Reader Lee Eberly from Iowa City sent a video of a most enterprising squirrel. His notes:
Gotta love ’em! Had not anticipated that when I installed the handrail. Sorry about the quality. Shot with iphone through plastic and window.
The video, posted on Susan Eberly’s YouTube feed, came with this description:
Did you know that squirrels will try over and over to reach your bird feeders? Not just one, not just tens of tries, but hundreds. And, like our favorite gray marauder, eventually they succeed. PS – Yes, “squirrelly” does have two rrs, and two lls (I looked it up).
Now I know another place not to hang a bird feeder!
Even better at 1/4 speed!
yer right.
Quality is very good!
Love the way he timed for the swing.
“Parkour” — cool word, that.
Should be spelt ‘parcour’ if same as in French.
As a sport discipline parkour is spelled with k in French too (otherwise it would be parcours with a final s). At least in Europe. I do not know about Québec, where they tend to be more purist.
Thanks for that, I had no idea there was a sport called parkour.
It consists of running, jumping and leaping over things, usually bits of buildings.
There’s quite a good video on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7QNWEGcNI
(well, I expect there are many videos of it on Youboob, including the ‘Fail’ videos where it goes horribly worng)
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