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I recently moved to a new house, back in November, and have been getting used of the new neighborhood and still unpacking boxes (seems like an endless task!). I live in a house that has 4 apartments, and I live in the upper left hand side, and actually have 2 floors, plus some first floor entrance way area. I also have a huge covered back deck on the second floor. I can't have any pets here, so I have gotten around to feeding the birds and of course once you start doing that, you get squirrels, lol. Well, yeah, I have the regular bunch of gray squirrels, a mother and 2 babies, plus another gray squirrel that I figure has to be the papa, or an older sibling. But what I also have that showed up one day is a red squirrel!
This is only the second one I have seen in my life, the first one was at a boy scout park, and they had the area roped off so people would not bother it.
So now I have one that comes up and feeds at my deck. He is sooo cute!

He looks like this:
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I have heard that they are territorial, and I hope he stays around (yes I know it is a boy, I checked with binoculars. He has boy parts.) I've been kinda worried about him for the past week, as I hadn't seen him since the 23rd, and was worried Mama squirrel had chased him away. But he showed up today, along with the second adult gray squirrel. I'm soo happy!