Our little friend above is a Wyoming Ground Squirrel. They are plentiful around Colorado. Many folks want to poison them so they don't mess up their lawn, but its not like I have a real lawn--just a meadow with native grasses. You do have to watch where you step when walking out in the yard--there are holes, much like a prairie dog town. But these guys are fun to watch. This morning I watched two of them chase each other round and round, then get in a scuffle for a few moments and then chase some more. I guess someone must have gone in the wrong tunnel. They are almost perfectly camoflaged with the soil and grass. Sometimes when I go outside they don't run away, they just freeze--makes for good picture taking. Of course, if I get close enough, they will run.
This fellow is a Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel. He (she?) seems interested in digging holes up under the rock outcroppings in the yard, rather than peppering the yard with holes and mounds like the Wyoming type. Or, they also seem to like to tunnel under the concrete front porches--quess porches look like big rocks to them.
The bunny rabbits seem to place their holes right at the base of bushes in our yard. And the field mice seem to like our crawl space under the house. Representatives of the rodent family abound, and each has their preferred spot to build their dens. Although I have not seen rats, which is more than I can say for our neighborhood in Houston.
One rodent we do not have in our yard is beavers. However, to see them, we only have to go down to the end of our street where they have a lodge and many dams at a creek there.
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