omggroundskwerl!!
Saw this little dewd at Balmorhea State Park in Toyahvale, TX too. Turns out he is a Mexican Ground Squirrel. Aieeeee muy Qte!! He was playin wif me. I'm just gonna post em all because the sequence is cute. Of course I used the zoom, I wasn't that close, but still he was a bit curious about me. Also, I deleted the first pic I took, which showed a little bit of his tail at the opening of his burrow, which is how I knew he was in there.
I realize I went a little nutso on the pics but I wasn't gonna quit snapping while he was letting me, and I didn't want to deny anyone of teh qte. He looks like what would happen if a regular gray squirrel and a chipmunk got together.
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well, the fact that he's a squirrel makes him a squirrel... :-P j/k
To me, (unprofessional know-nothing) his size is between a squirrel and a chipmunk. The coloring and the face is squirrel like, the tail is not quite as bushy as a squirrel, but similar (looks like a baby squirrel actually). and chipmunks have black and white stripes down their backs, so the spots are like stripes that have been partially erased. :-P Plus chipmunks live in holes in the ground (or in the window pit at my mom's old house), squirrels usually are tree dwellers.
chipmunks-- anybody want some? I have a colony here....
that's great you took all the shots- each is different. I really like the one where his eyes are squinty -- either he's checking you out and not too sure what you are, or he's nodding off.......
GREAT pix!!!
haha thanks!
I think I just caught him mid blink in that pic!! :)
Do you get the squirrels that never come to the ground? I think they're red squirrels - but I'm not sure. They run through the trees and along the overhead wires; they're TINY and red. Sweet! Across Baltimore Pike is a colony of black squirrels -- next to Granite Run Mall -- prettiest fur. Wowee.
Hey, this is a great thread -- we're all nuts for squirrels -- lol
He's like a squirrel with SPOTS!
Kind of like a fawn.
This guy is entirely too cute.
Awww he is just completely adorable and They are always cute when they have not taken up residence in your yard. ; )
So when mom first moved there, she was all "Hey! The chipmunks are spotted like fauns here!" And of course the roadrunners. They lived on the very edge of town then, so there were plenty critters. Now the city goes on for miles further, but the arroyos are still critter-ful.
And PCnotPC perhaps you can know they are Mexican ground squirrels, because they jump out, take the California ground squirrels jobs and apply for welfare at the same time.
The cutest thing ever.
You are the squirrel-whisperer.