May I please eat the fallen bird seed?

by Meg on February 18, 2007

Please suh, [English accent] may I scavenge thuh seeds heah? I would be most grateful if you’d let me! [paws clasped, ears in respectful position] 

Redsquirrel2_1

Please consider it, I shall wait heah for your anssah!

Redsquirrel

Jorden C. and Paul H.—you’ve got a winner…

{ 47 comments }

1 Mimi 02.18.07 at 7:54 pm

Cutest baby ever!!!!!

2 SeaBreeze 02.18.07 at 7:59 pm

How sweet!! =)

… as long as they stay outside…. I helped a friend chase one out of her home a few weeks ago….

3 pookiepuff 02.18.07 at 8:01 pm

Oh my goodness! I love this squirrel! This is the cutest squirrel I have EVER seen!!!!! AND I LOVE THE CAPTION!!! IT FITS SO WELL! Eeeeeeeee!!!

4 carmen 02.18.07 at 8:02 pm

how cute!

5 Fable 02.18.07 at 8:03 pm

If you give me back my money, my time, my own management of my social persona, my intimacy,my lover,my privacy…yes.

6 Ruki 02.18.07 at 8:04 pm

Omigosh! It looks like he could fit into a little gift box! Someone should make a lil’ nesting doll replica out of this guy!!!

7 Mimi 02.18.07 at 8:05 pm

I’m first, bleen, firsty, first!! {happy dance}

8 CG 02.18.07 at 8:22 pm
9 pistache268 02.18.07 at 8:26 pm

A red squirrel?

THEY ARE SO RARE!!!

10 pistache268 02.18.07 at 8:27 pm

ish

11 Dewi 02.18.07 at 8:27 pm

Of course you can eat the spilled bird seed.
Knocked some more seed off feeder.

12 Jackie from Michigan 02.18.07 at 8:27 pm

I hope a bird doesn’t doo-doo on his head while he’s eating the seed!
We’ve got these little guys all over the place, for the chipmunks are hibernating…they’re both sweeties!

13 E. Collison 02.18.07 at 8:32 pm

Small *is* beautiful, isn’t it?!

14 Renee 02.18.07 at 8:35 pm

Wow, that’s the politest squirrel I’ve ever met! :D

15 Jem 02.18.07 at 8:43 pm

AWW I LOVE THE SQUIRREL

16 Ginny 02.18.07 at 8:55 pm

My squirrels don’t ask or wait. They just invade the bird feeder and anywhere else there is food, which is OK by me. Their antics are great to watch and they need to eat, too. In fact, I put lots of fresh roasted (unsalted) peanuts out for them.

17 Aunty-G 02.18.07 at 8:55 pm

Thank you for asking. Sweet boy, such good manners. Watch out for the Kitters!

18 R. Moore 02.18.07 at 8:58 pm

Mwa ha ha, brilliant.

19 lauowolf 02.18.07 at 9:04 pm

Squirrelly version of the Ice Hotel.

20 gwen 02.18.07 at 9:09 pm

“Please, sir, may I have some more?”

21 Kylie 02.18.07 at 9:26 pm

That sounds like a southern accent to me!

22 Another Angela 02.18.07 at 9:39 pm

Love the captions and I LOVE SQUIRRELS!! This does look like a red squirrel. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have its congener the Douglas’s squirrel, with an orange belly and tufted ears. SO pretty! Much different from the big eastern gray and fox squirrels.

23 Carlisa 02.18.07 at 9:41 pm

…**Makes note to buy some unsalted nuts for the furry friends. It’s crusted ice on top of snow here so they probably can’t even get to the ground :o (

24 afith 02.18.07 at 10:02 pm

what a cute hammi in da woods in da snow

25 Yubi Shines 02.18.07 at 10:13 pm

Well, hello there, Oliver Twist.

How did he get there without leaving a trail? Did he burrow under the snow surface?

26 Catherine 02.18.07 at 10:22 pm

He’s really hamming it up for the camera!

27 Golden 02.18.07 at 10:41 pm

The caption is PERFECT!

I imagine he sounds like Arthur’s butler, remember him?

28 PuppyMomma 02.18.07 at 10:43 pm

Squirrels playing prairie dogs!

29 TeesMyBody.com T-Shirts 02.18.07 at 10:53 pm

Oh! I want to take that squirrel and bring it inside and give it a warm coffee!

30 Miss_Thing 02.18.07 at 11:11 pm

Why, it’s Squirrel Nutkin! He’s missing his cute little breetches tho….

31 Snorga 02.18.07 at 11:28 pm

ooooohhhh! Yes, lil baby cutie sqwirly; you can have all the snackeroos you want! :pats head:

32 Noel 02.18.07 at 11:29 pm

My question to the squirrel: “Mr. Squirrel, would you care to partake of a cup o’ tea and some biscuits with me at high noon?”

His reply, “Why, yes, sure, m’lady. I shall meet with you then on your front porch.”

33 Christina 02.18.07 at 11:53 pm

I think I want a respectable animal like that. It’s cute, fluffy, and fantastic and I want one.

34 jen 02.19.07 at 12:32 am

omg the picture commentary is too funny. lol

35 Angie 02.19.07 at 1:07 am

I have plenty of food left from my fatty birds. He can has a cheezburger!

36 mspat 02.19.07 at 1:16 am

This squirrel is a pretender! None of them are as sweet and quiet as this little guy.
Our squirrels hang on the feeder and can empty the feeder in a day. The birds eat from the ground and once in a while get a turn on the feeder. I will not even count the many ways we have attempted to protect the bird feeder from these pesky little guys.

37 pny 02.19.07 at 2:45 am

the captions are hilarious

38 Mo K. 02.19.07 at 3:09 am

Aww… he’s adorable! I can still say that even though they’ve tinkled and pooped on my car when I’ve forgotten to throw a handful of nuts out the side door. Who’s trained who here? I ended that losing cycle a couple of years ago. And here I thought I’d finally beaten them. http://mo-k-musings.livejournal.com/237332.html
There’re always one or two really smart ones, though.

39 Ponygirl 02.19.07 at 3:11 am

The story of Squirel Nutkin:
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids/beatrix/sn1.htm

40 Stephanie S. 02.19.07 at 3:25 am

wait! when did ;) change? :) ? ;) ? ;) ;o

41 RevWaldo 02.19.07 at 4:02 am

(standing on a mountaintop in the Nepalese Himalayas)
“Yes, my child, what is your question?”

42 Miss Bear 02.19.07 at 5:31 am

I see squirrels all the time, but never thought of them very cute until this picture! I love the apparent lack of neck and pressing of little paws to chest! =3

43 Subhangi 02.19.07 at 7:08 pm

I’m thinking:

1) Oliver Twist

2) Scrat from Ice Age

VOTE!

44 Kate 02.19.07 at 7:40 pm

Is it churlish of me to say this skwerl looks more grey than red? Almost like… a grey squirrel?

Compare and contrast (yes, I know this is a youngster)…
http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/squirreltastic.jpg

A minor point, of course… it’s still giving good skwerl.

45 Quick! 02.19.07 at 7:50 pm

Queek! Someone give this fella some snacky snacks!

46 Paul 02.20.07 at 2:09 am

He is a red squirrel. Although the baby grey squirrel in the link above looks like a monkey squirrel. I have such faith in the squirrel proof birdfeeder that I now can happily entertain “Squirrel Nutkin” and his friends with snacks on the ground. He was perusing them under the snow, and came up to ask for a napkin.

47 Carlisa 02.20.07 at 2:01 pm

Subhangi—–Scrat gets MY vote! :o )

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