{"id":8221,"date":"2025-10-04T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:31:17","slug":"the-early-squirrel-gets-the-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/04\/the-early-squirrel-gets-the-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Squirrel Gets The Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251004-nut-and-antelope-squirrel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251004-nut-and-antelope-squirrel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251004-nut-and-antelope-squirrel-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251004-nut-and-antelope-squirrel-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251004-nut-and-antelope-squirrel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the title, I paraphrased the 17th century proverb to describe the morning activity of the little <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/flower-and-squirrel\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Tailed Antelope Ground Squirrels<\/a> that inhabit the area around our little house. I usually carry a few almonds in my shirt pocket to toss out to the squirrels when they are brave enough to come out looking for a handout, which is more often than you might think.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the little guy in the image above was out of the burrow and into the open area in the wash behind the house to receive the nut that I tossed out for him (her?). I usually can&#8217;t tell unless a female that is nursing the little ones stands erect and I can see her teats exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The one shown was the only taker this morning, although, on occasion, several might show up. I carry several almonds and can usually throw enough for all that want them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: taken with my Canon EOS Rebel SL3, Normal Program, 1\/500sec, F8, ISO 100, EF-S55-250MM Lens @ 250MM, cropped.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the title, I paraphrased the 17th century proverb to describe the morning activity of the little White Tailed Antelope Ground Squirrels that inhabit the area&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}