Usually, there are 3-4 gray squirrels in the backyard. They're like vacuum cleaners, tracking back and forth over the yard cleaning up any seed or suet dropped from the feeders. Every couple of weeks, a red squirrel shows up and I can always tell which type is which (and not because of the color difference).
Red squirrels different don't travel in gangs - they are loners. They spend more time up in the trees (or running along telephone and power lines) than down on the ground. And they move much faster. It's easy to distinguish red squirrels from grays when they're moving around the branches of a tree because of the speed. Red squirrels look like they have somewhere they need to go NOW. No sauntering, no looking around, no indecision. They move and move quickly.
Twice today there was a red squirrel in the yard. It was checking out the birdfeeder on the fence and then rushed off to the large pine trees on the hill. Maybe it had an appointment...
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