By Vladimir Brezina
On an overcast, dull winter day in NYC’s Central Park, there is not much color and nothing moves—except squirrels!
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
And who knew that the word “squirrel” was so hard to pronounce? See here—
So, for days now, Johna and I have been saying “skvirel” to each other :-)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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Great shots (as you know I love photos of squirrels)
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Yes, I know… thank you!!
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when I was about 7 years old…we went to a park and I took my sister’s camera…”Black/white” film…Took the whole roll of film of squirrels!…she wasn’t too happy!
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Yes, things were very different in the days of film, which I remember very well…
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So niedlich und so wunderschöne Bilder.
LG Mathilda
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Vielen Dank, Mathilda! :-)
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But he’s a cute maverick :)
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He was very cute indeed…
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Those are great! What a little fluff ball!
Do you ever read Steve Schwartzman’s blog, Portraits of a Wildflower? He has several squirrels that regularly appear outside his windows as he’s working on his photographs and they’re a hoot to see.
https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/?s=squirrel
Nancy
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Sorry, meant to leave a single post, not all of them.
https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/regular-squirrel/
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Yes, I have followed Steve’s blog, and have seen his squirrels. Different species of squirrel, though…
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Love it!
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Great! Thanks!!
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Far too charming for words and what a squirrely video! Too many grins to count,
smiling toad
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Your grins are my reward :-)
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Always love skvirels!
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As do we!
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great captures!
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Thanks so much!!
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The best squirrel pictures I’ve seen in years. And I’ve seen a lot!
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That’s high praise—thanks so much, Marilyn!
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I’ll bet after pouring down a few at Oktoberfest, their tongues would loosen up enough to say the word SQUIRREL! One of the finest words in the English language along with SCIURINE….
Love me some squirrel pics… great shots!
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It is a great word! And it is very tough to pronounce for non-native English speakers…
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Lovely word! Lovely pictures which I shall squirrel away for future reference.
Have fun, you two with your squiffy squirrel attempts for the day may come when teeth – of lack of – will determine pronunciation of many a word – enough to make you squeam in fact!
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That time, hopefully, is way off in the future…
Thanks, Pamela!!
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I love squirrels- I have trained my cat that is only indoors to go to the windows to look for the squirrels and birds….all I say is birdie birdie quirrrly quirrls and he runs to the windows! I have also in my past trained them to come to our sliding glass doors for peanuts…Got to post photos of that!
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Oh how wonderful. I always try (and fail) to remember to bring something to feed them to the park…. if you go “tk tk tk” at them they come right up, expecting to be fed.
One friend has a lovely story of walking through Central Park on a cold, snowy night last year. She was accosted by a gang….
… of ducks.
Who came running up to her, quacking insistently, hoping to be fed. Apparently the animals in Central Park know to associate humans with food, particularly when it gets cold enough they can’t find it for themselves. (She said she went back with a loaf of bread).
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Lovely shots… I don’t see many squirrels in my area… I guess they don’t like Ft Lauderdale heat…
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Probably so… although there are relatives out West—prairie dogs and such—that cope with heat all right…
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Try pronouncing squirrel in German, it’s even worse actually:D
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Eichhörnchen? Yes, the umlaut might give some trouble…
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The “ch” also, in there. Not the easiest sound, and not all languages have the equivalent of the German “ch”
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Fortunately, Czech does :-)
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Or unfortunately for me, since French doesn’t :p
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