Just now an ordinary grey squirrel paused on the exact spot the little mystery guy likes. So maybe the grey squirrel is only twice as big as the one that gets in to eat from the bird feeders.
At any rate, I don't buy the suggestion that it's a juvenile. Two reasons -- because the grey squirrels run from it, and because what's with that red streak up its back (which you can't see very well here) and what about that white eye ring?
HI. OK, maybe you have a point there, and this is a red squirrel or grey/red hybrid, which does happen.
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