Jan 12
You shoulda bought a squirrel
I’m finally starting to tell my squirrels apart. Now that I have them pegged down, it’s actually quite easy to recognise them. “Blackie” is the biggest of the bunch, and darker than the other two. “Reddie” and “Stubby” (or “Stubby-tail”) are otherwise much the same, but easy to separate thanks to Stubby’s tail - looks like Stubby has lost an inch or so of the tail, so it’s not only shorter but the tip is also more square than round.
Blackie - dark ears and tail
Reddie - more orange coloured ears and tail
I’ll post a picture of Stubby the next time I get one.
We have been getting plenty of snow lately. In fact, since the New Year’s Eve, there hasn’t been any 24-hour period that we wouldn’t have gotten some new snow. It doesn’t mean that we now have an excessive snowcover, because the snowing hasn’t been that intensive and then in between the snowfalls, the snowcover has melted or just packed down on itself. Anyway, I measured half a meter yesterday, so we now have more snow than we had at best last winter (47.5 cm in March).
I also got around to some skiing today
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Why “You shoulda bought a squirrel”? Because I can’t look at a squirrel without thinking about Rat Race!
The portrait of “Blackie” is very nice! Good exposure + composition. How much did you need to crop it?
What comes to “Reddie”, just cut a bit off from the left side, maybe?
Darn it would’ve been great weather for some shooting today, and here I was sleeping late. Perhaps you did not suffer from same problems
(I knew there was nothing to shoot in the Netherlands this time of year so I didn’t bother taking camera with - it was pretty much just constant rain)
Full frame!
Usually when I crop a picture to fix composition, I mention it. I just don’t like to crop if I can avoid it, for me it means that I failed to create the picture in camera so I’m always a bit crossed with myself when I have to fix my mistakes later. Just have to learn to live with disappointment, I guess…. 
More squirrels, nice
We don’t have any snow left here.. 