A Scurry of Squirrels
May 31, 2016
I love those collective nouns for groups of animals; some of them are particularly apt and evocative — a gaggle of geese, an ostentation of peacocks, a scourge of mosquitoes . . . In this post, I am sharing some of my recent sketches of squirrels, so I looked up what a bunch of squirrels is called. And I found out it is called a “scurry” of squirrels.
What collective noun would you have come up with? How about a busyness of squirrels? An industriousness of squirrels? A scampering of squirrels?
Here is my scurry of squirrels: