Cute Encounter of the Third Degree ...
So I had a short holiday down at our cabin and we had a quite amazing wildlife-moment.The cutest baby squirrel was nosing around our cabin door and we ran into the little fellow several times during the day.
We couldn't understand why it kept rummaging the entrance area with such curiosity, but I was happy to get some nice pictures.
Finally we realized he was trying to get back up under the roof, where perhaps he was born in an undetected nest. At one point - (which I have on videotape and might try to post one day) he even ran right up my leg, thinking my brown linen pants where a tree or something - and hung there on my lower thigh looking me in the eye (or rather into the camera) as if begging me to lift him up to the beam where we had just discovered his very worried mother calling out to him.
Of course he just as quickly decided this was a dangerous move and turned nimbly down to my now outstretched bare foot and took a leap of faith onto the coat rac and, from there, disappeared under the cabin.
With the mother out looking for him, we all moved out of the way so she could fetch him. And, I'm very happy to say, a few minutes later we saw her skipping across the lawn - with her adorable little baby hanging onto her chest with a tight grip.
All's well, that ends well and how I love those rare up-and-close encounters with the (semi)wild ...






























