Posts tagged "SquirrelVideos"

When I was a kid in New England, my old man set up a plastic bird feeder on the roof of our shed in the backyard. And like a lot of people who put out bird feeders, we watched as ours was frequented by as many squirrels as birds, maybe more. My mother would yell at the squirrels or try to chase them away. It bothered her that they were eating food to which they were not entitled. "What difference does it make?" my father asked. "Squirrels or birds, they all need to eat." So that was that. The squirrels were invited too. I started calling it the squirrel feeder to tease my old man. It didn't bother him. If he'd really wanted to be funny about it all, he would've put out a tiny, squirrel-sized chair to let them really get comfortable out there. But no one would ever actually do a thing like that. That would be insane. Right?

Remember what it was like when you first took the training wheels off your bike? Just went you felt like both your feet were on the pedals and you were able to go big places...Plop!

Obviously baby squirrels don't ride bikes, but they do go through a similar rite of passage into big-kid squirreldom. Leaping over walls isn't as easy as mama squirrel makes it out to be!

This little guy chose the UCLA campus to hone his leaping skills and strategical abilities. Baby squirrel takes a number of spills which may result in scuffed paws, but with the help of mama squirrel's numerous demonstrations and some helpful props provided by kind college students, baby squirrel conquers the Great Wall of UCLA.