Busy Morning

We see the occasional blackbird in our garden and this morning I managed to snap one of a pair at the rear, the other hidden behind the picnic table.

Both blackbirds got scared away by a squirrel galloping through the garden in their direction. Which then jumped the fence into our front lawn where it ran around and stopped at various spots to dig in the ground. I imagine it was either inspecting caches of food or pretending to do so to fool other squirrels that might be watching (as explained by a documentary on TV I once saw).

Apparently there was indeed another squirrel watching, because the one I was following disappeared into the trees where I next saw two squirrels chasing each other. After all that commotion I went back to work.

blackbird - merle - merel
squirrel - écureuil - eekhoorn