SQUIRREL NAMING

 

One of three nest mates who could very well be the last litter by Rolla. He caught our eye with his fearless behavior-he counted coup during the dustup between his smaller sibling (runt or female) with Mamachuck; another day Mamachuck was doing something typical, half in and out of her apartment under the shed-this guy just walks up within three feet which freaked Mama out enough to retreat, he just walked away; the big crow, who is featured in an earlier blog and stationed on the pool deck railing-dude here calmly walked under the deck; while he hasn't come up yet for peanuts (most squirrels sees us and run away), he doesn't flee, nor does he flee when he encounters Molls lounging on the deck. He really seems to be his Mother's son so we have named him Bhadra, short for Virabhadra. This is a mythic Hindu warrior who was a fierce manifestation of the God Shiva.

We saw the first black squirrels last Summer perhaps a couple of times. This April we saw this guy and occasionally two others. He has several bare spots on his side and back-perhaps attacks by predators. We named him Kieran-Irish for "little dark one".