American Red Squirrel

Small squirrel with reddish fur and a white venter. They are very noisy and highly territorial.

Red squirrels are known to tap sugar maple trees to harvest the sugar in the sap. To do this, they actually bite into the tree trunk in order to puncture the xylem.

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Flown Kimmerling

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Cutie!!! Posted 7 years ago

Ferdy Christant

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It looks stunned by your presence, needing to hold onto things. Posted 7 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
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  Yes - it had been fighting with a chipmunk when I came upon them. When it saw me, the chipmunk ran off and the squirrel hid in this wood pile, but it kept watching me - annoyed? curious? I'm not sure :) Posted 7 years ago

The American red squirrel

The American red squirrel is one of three species of tree squirrel currently classified in the genus ''Tamiasciurus'' and known as pine squirrels. American red squirrels are also referred to as pine squirrels, North American red squirrels, and chickarees.

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Similar species: Rodents

Species identified by Christine Young