My very first squirrel photo, first posted in December 2007.  Yay! 

This squirrel sat still for about five seconds — long enough for me to finally take a photo.

It’s ECOLOGICAL DAY, a blogging event started by Sonia at LEAVES OF GRASS.  The event takes place the second day of every month.  I originally posted this squirrel photo in December 2007.  However, I wanted to post it again for Ecological Day. 

What do squirrels have to do with this event?  Well, a few weeks ago, Abraham wrote a touching and eye-opening post about how the pesticides that many people use in their gardens and on their lawns poison squirrels and other wildlife (I’m unable to provide a link to the post because it’s no longer available.).  The animals suffer a slow and painful death.   So sad. 

Lawn treatment is poison to the environment.

We only have one earth, folks.  So, let’s be good to it and its inhabitants.

Happy Ecological Day!  Stop by LEAVES OF GRASS to see a lineup of other Ecological Day posts.

Paz

Ed. Note:  Abraham was kind enough to give me one of his photos of a sick squirrel, which I’ve posted below.  Check out the photo and what he writes about it.   Thanks for your contribution, Abraham!

A squirrel nest made from leaves (Photo taken December 2007).

According to Abraham, the hole nest in the tree (first photo above) is better than the nest of leaves because it’s stronger — better protection for squirrels.

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Here is a photo that Abraham graciously provided for this post.  He writes:  "This photo was taken of a squirrel who started out with a spot on this eye and everything else looks good. Over the weeks that followed he got worse and this was his condition towards the end. I don’t know what causes it but suspect something about that spot on his eye that may have itched and he was blind in it and rammed his cheek on that side into a pointed stick or something as this gash began as a small cut and festered into what you see, filled with puss and surely was an agony."