The best way to not get belly splinters.
This week’s Saturday Squirrel is running up the telephone pole in my backyard, using it as his entrance ramp to the electrified squirrel highway…..
Wait a minute! Is he actually scampering up that pole, or is he….???
Take a closer look! He isn’t making any physical contact with that pole at all! It’s like he’s shooting upward along the pole!
Look Ma! No paws!!!
Of course, this was just a lucky shot of the very brief moment in time in the squirrel’s gait 
when all four of his legs were off the “ground,” much like you see in our old friend Hover Squirrel. We two-footers even do it when we run. But it’s a bit odd to think of this phenomenon in the vertical sense, because it seems a bit unwise to ever completely break contact with the surface you are climbing!
For showing us yet another amazing ability in the sciurine bag of tricks, we salute this week’s upwardly mobile Saturday Squirrel… who can glide through the air with the greatest of ease… and without a jetpack (though a squirrel with a jetpack would be totally awesome!)
Hope your weekend is looking up!
Evil Squirrel's Nest 
Awesome!
Thank you! I’m sure you know as well as I do that squirrels quite often make for the awesomest of pictures!
They sure do. I get so frustrated sometimes when they are doing something so cute, and the camera either doesn’t capture what I saw or I hit the button and the squirrel has moved. My shutter speed messes up sometimes. It’s not fast enough.
Oh, how many really cool pictures I’ve missed either because of the slow shutter, or because my camera is “busy” for about 5 seconds after I take a picture, and I miss the small window of opportunity. But since I take squirrel pictures in volume, I do manage to get enough of the good stuff!
That’s a great shot!
Great shots is what I do, ma’am! I only had to throw away about 9,000 not so great shots to get that one…
That’s how it goes! LOL
bet it will spy on my mommas phonecalls… because they are always nuts :o)
Shhhh! The NSA doesn’t want anyone to know it hires squirrels to do that!
He’s like “SuperSquirrel” or something.
A much better superhero than my Masked Marsupial…
Dman’s right. SuperSquirrel! He needs a cape now. LOL
And a brightly colored bodysuit!
Of course!
No matter what anyone says, it is all magic. Squirrels do not climb poles. They levitate. It’s obvious.
Another secret of squirrels exposed by photo evidence. Next week, I capture the Loch Ness Monster in my ditch…
That’s so cool. Ditto what Marilyn Armstrong said above.
Yeah… take that, science! Squirrels don’t obey your stupid laws!
I agree with the other commenters and add “undies over suit!”
Of course! Superheroes always have to dress backwards!
I don’t think that squirrel fully understands what gravity is about :-\
We shall have to arrest him for breaking the laws of physics… if we can catch him.