Pages

20 Oct 2012

Trees and a Squirrel


We got some glorious autumn days right now, and since the way to my job place goes through part of the Forest Botanical Garden, I decided to bring my camera yesterday.

My way to work (well, after I got off a 35 min bus ride)

There's a little pond, too, which looks lovely right now.

A pond in the Forest Botanical Garden

I turned to take another shot.

The pond from a different angle

When something threw something at me. And I could hear a crunching sound.

What's hiding there?

I looked up into the tree. It was camouflaged well, brownish against brown branches and yellow leaves, and against the low autumn sun.

A red squirrel, eating some nut or seed. Audibly so.

Red squirrels are pretty common in Germany (we don't get the grey variant), and in the park they are not shy; they sometimes squirrel across the way right in front of you.

Spot the Squirrel

Another shot of the wee bugger in all its bushy-tailed glory.

More pretty trees

I took some more photos of trees before I had to catch the bus home. If the weather holds, I should walk the other ways in the park with my camera, too.

4 comments:

  1. Gorgeous colours, and I love the red squirrel! :) We're having fabulous warm weather here too, and I'm really enjoying it. :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Glorious photos! Well done for getting a picture of the cute squirrel. We mostly have greys over here.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Love the pond shot. :) Your red squirrels have longer (tufted) ears than our red squirrels...

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thank you, Kathryn, Carla and Constance.

    ReplyDelete

Blogger / Google may temporarily store the data by commenters, including the IP address.