A photographer from Cornwall, Ont., says he’s delighted with his images of a squirrel doing battle with a woodpecker earlier this month. It all began when a red squirrel wandered onto a tree inhabited by a pair of pileated woodpeckers. One of the woodpeckers flew up to the curious squirrel and dislodged it from the tree, sending the squirrel crashing down onto another woodpecker just below. “It had the […]

This squirrel had grown tired of its boring diet of nuts and berries, so it decided to see what all the fuss about that “hunting” business was all about. It also realized that going after a predator would probably be a much more fulfilling use of its lightning speed and vicious biting attacks. The first animal in sight seems to have been this snake, which was a bit taken back […]