Blip #800 is, of course, a squirrel

Squirrels and I have a connection. No idea why. I must have been a squirrel in a previous life.

Anyway, this little beastie demonstrates why the Greeks called them skiouros shade-tails or shadow-tails. In Latin: sciurus. Old French: escurel. Anglo-Norman: esquirel. Modern English: squirrel.