Garden visitors. Red Squirrel.

A Red Squirrel eating peanuts from the bird-feeder in front of my living-room window. The window is absolutely filthy with splattered food from the hundreds of birds that visit every day and the gigantic slugs that feed from the nuts during the night. Red Squirrels are very rare in the UK now, and can only be found in a handful of locations, my garden being one of them it seems! They are a protected species and the race is on to save them from extinction. They are the only squirrel native to the British Isles.