Get your claws off my nuts

A FEISTY red squirrel squares up to a hungry pheasant trying to nab its hazelnuts.

Amateur photographer Louise Phillips, 40, who caught the clash in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, said the gutsy rodent started the spat.

The Dunfermline GP added: “The squirrel attacked first and the pheasant jumped and clawed back. I think it realised it had bit off more than it could chew.”

SEEING RED The pheasant saunters up as the squirrel gathers hazelnuts before the rodent lashes out at the cheeky intruder