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By Hamish Morrison via SWNS

This hilarious picture shows two baby redsquirrels playing with a photographer's camera.

Katrina Smith, 59, took the picture on a trip to nature photography garden Penny Hedge near Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross on Monday, November 22.

This hilarious picture shows two baby red squirrels playing with a photographer's camera near Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross.Creator: (Katrina Smith via SWNS) .

She had brought along a spare camera which was left out on a rock as a prop while her friend Pauline White, 49, both from Bathgate, West Lothian, hid out in an observatory shed in the garden.

Council worker Katrina said the two squirrels captured in her picture were ‘yapping’ at her while she laid down the prop camera because she was blocking their access to the nuts left out.

“I brought a spare camera and I thought 'it’s dry, let’s put it out on the wall and use it as a prop and see what happens,'" Katrina said.

“We got one sitting in front of the camera and one sitting behind it.

“They were really funny to watch.

“I was setting up the camera and one of them was wanting to get near the nuts and he was going crazy yapping away. It’s a bark noise, it’s quite unique.

“He was sitting about ten feet away, yapping away and then he ran away and sat up a tree and continued to bark at me until I walked away from the camera.”

The squirrels Katrina captured were the ‘shy’ babies of the group - which she can tell because the tufts on their ears are only just coming in.

“The squirrels are quite shy - they run in, grab the nuts and run away again," she added.

“The ones in the picture are this year’s babies, they’re just starting to develop the tufts on their ears.

“The ones born last year are more confident and will come up but these wouldn’t come too close.

“There are quite a few red squirrels up there, they are quite common around the Perthshire region.

“We counted about four or five that day."

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