New Visitor

Every so often. a new one shows up. This young one appeared today and wants to eat at my window, but is somewhat timid. I try not to name them or become attached to my wild pets. The life expectancy here in northwest Connecticut, USA, for the wild Squirrels, may be a year, or less. Out front is a road. This is a residential neighborhood. The road has a posted speed limit of 30 mph. Most of the drivers I see are driving way over the speed limit, possibly 50 mph or more. Any animal, wild or domestic, has little chance of reaching the opposite side. This road sees much pedestrian use: walking, bicycling, running, walking the dog... It seems only a matter of time before someone gets injured or killed. Will that change anything???, probably not.

For this image, I used my original model Pentax Q Camera and attached 02 Standard Zoom Lens, hand held with the lens up against the opening of the crank-out window, ISO 800, f8, 1/160 sec, with available ambient light. This is a 12.4 mp full resolution Large JPEG and is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) and is without any post-processing, editing, adjusting, cropping, or re-sizing.