Squiirrel in the tree

Looking out of my office window I saw this squirrel across the close.  Picked up the camera, carefully opened the front door and sat on the step.

He (?) gradually got closer and closer until he was in the silver birch about 15 feet away.  Obviously decided that there was nothing of interest there so moved on.

I think that we will start to see more of him over the coming months - especially when the bird feeder is our again!