July 29, 2004

Wildlife getting in on the game
posted by squeak 20 years ago
  • I just couldn't resist this one this morning.
  • The action shot is fantastic.
  • Get Carl Spackler on the horn.
  • excellent squeak! Squirrels are nuts anyway. The other day one outside my place dropped from a low limb onto the ground with his tail straight up, standing flat out and low to the ground. He looked left and right and bolted onto a tree, then hopped 180 degrees onto the same part of the tree - looked around again and took off for another tree. We called him the Ninja Squirrel because he seemed to be saying "Hai! . . . Haop! Hai!!" while he was doing it.
  • "It's like they're teaching the kids," he said. "They're seeing their parents do it and think it's right." So it got started with this crazy squirrel that did this for kicks, and now it's a venerable squirrel tradition? Wonderful. Good one, squeak!
  • bwhaaaaaaaa haha!!!! best action shot EVAH.
  • Best. Picture. Ofasquirrelstealingagolfball. Ever.
  • "The ball was in the middle of the fairway and I was about 15 feet away when the squirrel grabbed it." Wilder hurled his divet tool at the beast." Too much, I can only imagine the chaos on the links when these things happen.
  • FLY, Skiveril, FLY! Scurris does golf? Where is that bushy-tailed little fella, anyway?
  • Wow, finally golf has become interesting. They should make golfball-stealing-squirrels part of the game. Golf players should start chasing squirrels down and steal the ball back. Getting a -1 to their score if successful (without hurting the critters of course). Participant squirrels should get a price if they return the ball back to the owner after successfully outrunning them. Yes, they could learn to do that as easily as stealing balls.
  • Woe! Woe! Woe! And likewwise welladay! Those damnable wee rodents Have squirrel'd my balls away!
  • Haha! Nice, bees! Damn imperialistic american squirrels...
  • Look, how our garden hass been undercut! They sstealss away each preciouss nut! But their wicked cunning we forestalls When we sstart sstealing cannonballss!
  • I ♥ Bees!
  • Bad enough you claw my windowsill, until the feeders are refilled; midsummer squirrel, so srrong and sleek, I'm grateful you don't have a beak.
  • The Squirrel The first hazelnut trundles down from above. The second hazelnut, the third, the fourth, the fifth and the sixth trundle down from above. The hazelnuts truncle down, nut by nut, to the ground beneath the dumb tree, the tree whose memory the squirrel collects, nut by nut, rolling it into his den. Each year a memory of hazelnuts rolls, nut by nut, into the den of the prince with the merry tail, and the tree forgets. --Saleem Barakat
  • mmmm . . . merry tail.