This abert squirrel seems surprised to see me with the camera. Usually they run at the first sight of me, but this one took a few seconds to decide the level of threat. I didn’t move and the squirrel rewarded me with this pose.

Uncle Abert poses for my camera to thank me for the bit of multi-grain bread I tossed to him from the deck. He’s an abert’s squirrel of the gray and white variety, we have black ones and brown ones with ear tufts here, too. Last time I posted an abert’s squirrel photo online, someone commented [...]