Chillin squirrel 8527

What's a guy to do when it's 100F in the shade? One of our garden visitors has discovered a new use for the bird bath ...

Pentax istDS DSLR with 50-200mm zoom at 200mm, ISO 800 at 1/250th sec, handheld through a window. Distance to squirrel about 25 feet. Slight crop and histogram stretch to bring out shadowed detail.

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