WEST JUNEAU WEEKLY PICTURE
Red Squirrel
The Red Squirrel – Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) – is indigeneous and common in Alaska. This squirrel was in a small Sitka spruce tree (Picea sitchensis) by the house and is holding in it’s paws a willow seed capsule from which it was eating the seeds; the capsule gotten from an adjacent Sitka willow tree (Salix sitchensis).
Picture by O. Richard (Dick) Kent, Spring 2002, © 2006