Fox Squirrels – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Fox Squirrel Close Up In Fall

By Mia McPherson|December 4th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County|Tags: autumn, close up, driftwood, fall, feeder, Fox Squirrel, garden, portrait, Sciurus niger, squirrel, squirrels, suburban, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, yard|

I haven’t been seeing many squirrels since the temps started dropping below freezing at night. When this Fox Squirrel showed up, I was happy to photograph them.

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Young Fox Squirrel Photo And Video

By Mia McPherson|October 27th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County, Video|Tags: Arkansas, autumn, fall, Fox Squirrel, garden, immature, pine straw, running, Sciurus niger, Sebastian County, squirrel, squirrels, suburban, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, yard, young|

While I was outside yesterday, I watched and photographed a young Fox Squirrel slowly climb down from an oak tree and run across a thick layer of pine straw.

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Fox Squirrel Gnawing On An Antler

By Mia McPherson|October 19th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, antler, autumn, behavior, chewing, close up, eating, fall, Fox Squirrel, garden, gnawing, Sciurus niger, squirrel, squirrels, suburban, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, yard|

For the first time, I saw, photographed, and filmed a Fox Squirrel gnawing on a deer antler, and it was pretty exciting. The squirrel seemed to love it.

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Fox Squirrel Eating Acorns

By Mia McPherson|August 3rd, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County|Tags: acorn, acorns, adult, chowing down, eating, Fox Squirrel, garden, male, mammals, nibbling, oak tree, Sciurus niger, squirrel, squirrels, summer, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, urban, yard|

Because of cloudy then scorching hot weather, I didn't get out to photograph yesterday morning. But the day before, I focused on a Fox Squirrel eating acorns.

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Fox Squirrel Drinking From A Bird Bath

By Mia McPherson|May 10th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, bird bath, drink, drinking, feeder, Fox Squirrel, garden, mammals, Sciurus niger, squirrel, squirrels, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, urban, water, yard|

I took these photos of a Fox Squirrel when the squirrel came in to enjoy a nice drink of water at my friend Steve's Creek's bird bath in his yard in Arkansas.

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Birds and Wildlife From Arkansas And Sequoyah NWR In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|May 6th, 2024|Categories: Arkansas, Birds, Blue-winged Teals, Carolina Chickadees, Common Five-lined Skinks, Coyotes, Fox Squirrels, Great Horned Owls, House Finches, Northern Cardinals, Northern Flickers, Oklahoma, Painted Lady Butterflies, Pine Siskins, Sebastian County, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Three-toed Box Turtles, Tufted Titmouses|Tags: Baeolophus bicolor, Blue-winged Teal, Bubo virginianus, Canis latrans, Cardinalis cardinalis, Carduelis pinus, Carolina Chickadee, Colaptes auratus, Coyote, Diamondback Watersnake, Fox Squirrel, Great Horned Owl, Haemorhous mexicanus, House Finch, Nerodia rhombifer, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker, Painted Lady Butterfly, Pine Siskin, Poecile carolinensis, Sciurus niger, Spatula discors, Terrapene carolina ssp. triunguis, Three-toed Box Turtle, Tufted Titmouse|

I'm sharing a bunch of bird and wildlife photos that I have recently photographed in my friend Steve's yard in Arkansas, and from Sequoyah NWR in Oklahoma.

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Utah Fox Squirrel Close Ups

By Mia McPherson|December 6th, 2023|Categories: Fox Squirrels, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, close up, fall, Fox Squirrel, home, mammals, nonnative, portrait, Sciurus niger, squirrel, squirrels, tree, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, trunk, urban|

I didn't have to travel far to take close-up photos of this Fox Squirrel. In fact, I photographed the squirrel when I got home from checking out my local pond.

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Standing Fox Squirrel

By Mia McPherson|July 11th, 2023|Categories: Arkansas, Fox Squirrels, Sebastian County|Tags: adult, Fox Squirrel, grass, mammals, Sciurus niger, spring, squirrel, squirrels, tree squirrel, tree squirrels, urban, yard|

This Fox Squirrel was one of the four squirrels my dear friend and wildlife photographer, Steve Creek, had living in his yard at his home in Arkansas.

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