Scoiattolo!
There’s a Squirrel up in the trees here at Lago di Alviano. It must be Red Squirrel, because we’ve seen them here before:
![Red Squirrel - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Red-Squirrel-The-Hall-of-Einar-6463-725x484.jpg)
I’d recognise those ears anywhere:
![Red Squirrel - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Red-Squirrel-The-Hall-of-Einar-6179-725x484.jpg)
![Red Squirrel - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Red-Squirrel-The-Hall-of-Einar-6108-2-725x484.jpg)
Today’s Squirrel has got the same distinctive ear tufts. It’s up high in a tree snacking on seeds:
We watch and wait but it never comes down and it never comes close. Seeing it, though, is thrill enough.