While glancing out my patio door yesterday, I spied this once fearsome beast (to me anyway) partaking of the generous bounty of our backyard compost pile.
Their smaller cousins, the squirrels, also dine al fresco here from time-to-time. I'll only start worrying if they come up to me and start asking what the lunch specials are for today.
post 961. we are not nicer here.
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5 comments:
What is that??? It's kinda cute regarless but I don't think it's something we have here in the UK.
Wow, what a fantastic photo! I've never seen a woodchuck before, thank you, BG
gemmaK - It is a woodchuck, also known as a groundhog. I blogged about my first experience with them here:
http://mrnighttime.blogspot.com/2008/05/creature-feature.html
BG - Thanks, I got lucky as they usually can see me from the patio door, but this one was apparently too preoccupied with his salad.... ;-)
That is one LARGE rodent! :)
Compost heap, huh....you go with your bad self you earthy crunchy cutie you...
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