{"id":4621,"date":"2014-01-11T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2014-01-11T07:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T12:00:21","slug":"practicing-for-the-squirrel-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Practicing for the squirrel Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I actually quite like squirrels. But I do find that their antics are a lot more attractive, a lot more fun, in a park in Virginia far far away from the birdseed on my back deck than they are at home. Strange how that works. Virginia had a cold snap while I was there, being at the edge of the Polar Vortex…it was 5 above zero on Tuesday morning, but by mid-day Thursday the temperatures were back up in the mid-forties, and the Squirrels were making up for lost time. Lots of foraging going on…but also lots of what I can only call play<\/em>…unless of course there really is a Squirrel Olympics…then it would definitely be practice.<\/em> This aspiring Squirrel acrobat was testing him (or her) self against gravity. How long can I cling? How flat can I get? It was such an odd pose that it tempted me to take way too many pictures…all of which are just about identical. <\/p>\n

Canon SX50HS. Program with – 1\/3rd EV exposure compensation and iContrast. ISO 320 @ 1\/1000th @ f6.5. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. Cropped slightly for composition.<\/p>\n

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