Sciurus Vulgaris? Ardilla Sciurus Aureogaster? No, It's Sciurus Niger?

Sciurus Ngier, the Eastern Fox Squirrel? Anyway, it's The hunchback of Landerhaven lane! Click the pic to see how large this not-so-little fella is! He was eating so loudly we could hear him cracking nuts (or something) open this morning.
The Squirrel-un-lovers among you will notice that we have much fresh snow on the ground. Yup. This week is SNOW STORM week. Weather 'cast predicts 3.5 feet of snow. Woof!

We had a slight thaw lately, and then a freezing, then snow, so the local fountain now looks like:
Weird ripple thing going on there.

After lunch, Pepper and I decided to go Squirrel Hunting. Here's a pic of Pepper patiently picking her route to the unsuspecting squirrel...Pepper managed some good shots. Go see her blog for pics!

In the meantime, here's some to tide you over:

Zoomed in:
another:
and lastly, what he might look like in the summer (pic apparently by John White):
or maybe it's this guy:
Ours really was this fat... and out-massing some Singaporean cats too!

I promise, no more squirrel pics, unless someone gets molested by one, or if one poops on me.