Autumn and Winter in Finland 2014 - 2015
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“One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals” (Mahatma Gandhi)
"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals" (Paul McCartney)
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Thank you, Felis for the photo. The squirrel looks good and cute, it's almost smiling
Merry Christmas to you too!
We had sunshine today. Squirrels, and the pheasant visited only in the morning. Later I didn't see not one single squirrel. The snow is thick and soft and that's perhaps one reason why they do not move that much. There is here some hawk too. I have seen a brownish fast flying bird (rather tall, like 'crow'), not often, only once 1-2 weeks, if not even that often.
One of the morning visitors, the red tailed young looking squirrel:
Merry Christmas to you too!
We had sunshine today. Squirrels, and the pheasant visited only in the morning. Later I didn't see not one single squirrel. The snow is thick and soft and that's perhaps one reason why they do not move that much. There is here some hawk too. I have seen a brownish fast flying bird (rather tall, like 'crow'), not often, only once 1-2 weeks, if not even that often.
One of the morning visitors, the red tailed young looking squirrel:
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You are right, spatz! He is safe here on the hill. But elsewhere, in the forests outside the populated areas it is going on the pheasant official hunting season, from September to February.spatz wrote:the pheasant, has thought at olga I am protected for christmas. no frying pan for me
There is a Gray headed woodpecker on the apple tree! It was wholly motionless perhaps be cause it noticed me moving behind the window.
Merry Christmas to you too, spatz!
An old postcard by Rudolf Koivu (1890 – 1946), he was a Finnish illustrator and painter, best known for illustrating books of fairytales for children, which are enduringly and timelessly popular
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I got this fellow after he quickly went up the tree when a dog came along. He was kind of "smiling" down on the dog, and yes, my colleague and I had that kind of feeling too!Olga wrote:Thank you, Felis for the photo. The squirrel looks good and cute, it's almost smiling
Merry Christmas to you too!
We finally have a very thin layer of snow too, today morning! So a bit of winter feeling came along.
You got a lot of interesting visitors. The pheasant must know that he is safe on Squirrel Hill. But the different woodpeckers are also a treat to see!
Edit: by the way, we have two of this dark squirrels, this one without the ear tassels and the other one with ear tassels. But that one is so shy and quick, I did not get him photographed until now.
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"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals" (Paul McCartney)
The Aquila Pomarina Collection
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Happy New Year To All At Squirrel Hill
I wish you all the best in 2015.
I wish you all the best in 2015.
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Happy New Year to Squirrel Hill!
“One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals” (Mahatma Gandhi)
"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals" (Paul McCartney)
The Aquila Pomarina Collection
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Happy New Year to all on Squirrel Hill!
I wish you health, peace, happiness and fulfillment of dreams in the New 2015 Year to everyone.
Thank you Olga for your all fantastic videos, photos and comments.
Thank you for sharing us the happy moments the life of the Squirrel Hill.
Squirrel In Snow by Petr Kratochvil
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This is really cute!
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From the 30th December!
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have a Wonderful 2015
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Happy new Year to you, Olga and to all friends of Squirrel Hill!!!
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Thank you Olga for splendid pictures and videos.
Mrs Mops and Mops Jr are lovely with their new long tassels.
Coal Tit, Great Tit and couple of Black Woodpeckers are beautiful too.
The trees covered by fresh snow look like landscape from a fairy tale The Snow Queen.
In my area the snow is melting and I miss a real winter :(
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Here is an amazingly cute little North American Red Squirrel -- it is a baby
Photo of the Week - American Red Squirrel (ME) by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region, on Flickr
In this case ME means Maine -- so the opposite side of the country from me.
I always think the European Red squirrels are the cutest, but this comes close.
Photo of the Week - American Red Squirrel (ME) by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region, on Flickr
In this case ME means Maine -- so the opposite side of the country from me.
I always think the European Red squirrels are the cutest, but this comes close.
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Alice, it's really cute!! So a sweet pup! Thank you
Happy New Year to Looduskalender friends and to the Squirrel hill's squirrel friends!
Here the New Year night was ... huh... flashes and bombs, you know...
Squirrels were hideous for one, two days,
But now they are back!
Here we go again:
Castano on the 28th December and the 6th January 2015:
Some pictures from last five days follow:
Happy New Year to Looduskalender friends and to the Squirrel hill's squirrel friends!
Here the New Year night was ... huh... flashes and bombs, you know...
Squirrels were hideous for one, two days,
But now they are back!
Here we go again:
Castano on the 28th December and the 6th January 2015:
Some pictures from last five days follow:
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Thank you for the update from Squirrel Hill I'm very fascinated by the picture of the pheasant