Natures Best Disguise

Look at this seemingly cute rodent-um squirrel, I mean. Now take everything you think you know about squirrels and throw it out the window-NOW. Because they aren't cute, they are not dumb or simple. They are rodents! Too smart for their own good! When an animal is smart it somehow takes away their cuteness-you find yourself wanting to see them fail when they try and climb up a quarter inch pole and you don't want to see them figure out how to get into your "squirrel proof" bird feeders. Nature has disguised the big yellow buck teeth and long skinny gross tail of the rat and stuck on a BIG furry tail and big cute eyes and teeth that can't be seen-unless they are chewing apart YOUR birdfeeder! Don't be fooled any of you, they are only rats in disguise!

What the camera can't capture here is the feeder is spinning very quickly, about to throw off the rat-um squirrel. But somehow the rat figures out how to slow it down by hanging upside down-it somehow works for a bit-then it starts spinning out of control again with the weight of the large rodent until it ultimately tosses the squirrel off-which I captured (a personal feat of mine) in the next picture.

Here is um Mr. Rat-a-tat-squirrel as I like to call him. We know he's a male because, well you can see IT in the candid nude shot (down 2-for you squirrel fiends)

This is natures best FEMALE disguise-she is the cleverest of the two-no surprise here-that's usually how it is. Look at the way she twines her body in the bird feeder-which has now morphed into the "Rat Feeder"

Here is the lovely couple out for their daily terrorizing of the feeders in the Henley neighborhood. They set a personnel record yesterday-eating out the newly filled feeders in under 10 minutes flat! Amazing, I'm calling National Geographic! This ones for you mom!