What a picture!!! This is the kind of shot I,m trying to get. what setup did you use

I talk to the animals (as sung in my best Rex Harrison voice)! Nice shot, how close were you? And did you get a bite of whatever he, her, it? was eating? Jack

aw, cool shot!!! These little bar stewards are getting so tame though, ain't they? Damn, last coupla time's I've shot them I've managed to get just 4-5 feet away! (",)

What a great close-up! I've got tons of tree rats in the back yard. So many, in fact, that the tree limbs can't support all of their weight when they get to scurrying around. I never get too close to them because of their venomous fangs.

How did yu come that near? It's a wondrful portrait of that cute one. In Sweden they have become very rare, don't know if it is the traffic or pollution that have been their destiny.

Hehe! Cute!

good one..his/her eye looks like a black marble.

Cool shot ; )

Thanks folks :D. I was pleased with this one, myself. This is a large female; she has babies nearly as big as she is, and she is very thin. She is definitely aware that something is going on, but she is not terribly concerned about it. This was shot through a window, glass pressed up against the lens. The animal is at the near focus-distance of about 2.5 m, with a 300 x 1.4. This is nearly full-frame, with only about a 10% crop off the top. I wouldn't say she and her babies are tame, exactly, but they are accustomed to coming up on the deck to get peanuts in the shell, and they are accustomed to the big single black eye that sometimes moves around on the other side of the window. They do not even care much if the dog looks out the window, as long as the dog doesn't bark. I'm guessing it would be easy to get them to take food from the hand; my grandmother loved to do this, until one bit her because she didn't let go of the walnut quickly enough. Tetanus shots are really not a great deal of fun; god knows I've had enough of them--but none recently.

Alpha--ham comes from pigs, not squirrels.

Love to see more of her, & her babies.... ; )

Great shot. I love it. Being trying to get this close to the squirrels in my yard. No sucess yet.