Far From the Madding Crowd: Red Squirrel

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

We had to take our car in for service and MOT so we walked into Poole and took a boat trip to Brownsea Island while our car was being done. We saw several Red Squirrels about. This one was quite happy for me to take pictures of it while eating the berries from the Yew tree.

4 comments:

Richard Pegler said...: Nice to see a Red one Linda! Been to Poole a few times, but never over to Brownsea Island - must put that right some time; 25 September 2012 at 19:26
holdingmoments said...: A sight I've not seen in a very long time.
Great capture Linda.; 25 September 2012 at 19:29
Mike Randall Bird Photography said...: Nice way to while away the time waiting for the car. Nice picture, great to see at any time.; 25 September 2012 at 19:42
Roy said...: Lovely to see them Lyn. Great image.; 25 September 2012 at 23:57

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.