Monthly Image: Red Squirrel

This red squirrel has the reddest tail of all:

Those white eye rings help carry off the whole “insufferably cute” thing:

We often see them scampering through the pine treee out back, where they pause to strip the seeds off unopened pine cones and toss the empties on the driveway.

Taken through two layers of wavy 1955-era glass with the Sony DSC-H5.