This red squirrel appears to be making a snowball. The amusing scene was captured by British photographer Simon Phillpotts in the Yorkshire Dales.
bewitchingbritain: Castle Combe in Wiltshire, England; one of the prettiest Cotswold villages, in the winter. I LOVE THIS!
Animal Portraits highly commended: Windy Day by Steward Ellett. Red squirrel (Sciurrus vularis) Formby Point, Merseyside, England.
The Forest of Dean is a geographical and cultural region in western Gloucestershire, England. It is a triangular plateau bordered by the River Wye west and north, River Severn to the south, and City of Gloucester to the east.
The Forest of Dean, about 110 square kilometres, is one of the surviving ancient woodlands in England; the area being first occupied by the Romans around 50 A.D. A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and it remained the second largest Crown forest in England thenceforth; and was used exclusively as royal hunting ground by the Tudor Kings.
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