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richardson's ground squirrels!!

By misslake (Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:35:16 PM EST) (all tags)

today ni, mostly-harmless and i mounted an expedition to 50th street and 58th avenue to investigate the creatures i spotted from the car yesterday.

we found a whole bunch of prairie dogs!
or, you know, richardson's ground squirrels.

they ran across the grass, they scurried, they stood up on their hind legs, they eyed us disapprovingly and they made little squeaky noises, and they dove down their holes.

it was amazing and delightful. i laughed and laughed. i took lots of pictures.

here is the best one, it's m-h watching a baby one.

the rest are in my google account, here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/courtneyjanetlake/RichardsonSGroundSquirrels

and now that i have mastered that interface, i will be uploading my other photos of my albertan adventures there too.

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Awww, cute! by toxicfur (2.00 / 0) #1 Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:47:53 PM EST

And, well, mh isn't so bad either. ;-)

This reminds me that I must save a bit of money and buy a decent camera, though I really don't think we have anything as cute as the prairie dogs around here.
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: *blush* (n/t) by MostlyHarmless (4.00 / 1) #4 Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:34:54 PM EST

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+1, contains squirrels by MillMan (4.00 / 1) #2 Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:03:45 PM EST

also contains elvis.

When I'm imprisoned as an enemy combatant, will you blog about it?

: You want squirrels? by Driusan (2.00 / 0) #3 Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:24:20 PM EST

I'll give you squirrels. Adorable squirrels.

You're on your own for Elvis. I didn't see him today when I was out with my camera.
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They are cute by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #5 Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:52:53 PM EST

Are they the reason everyone has rock gardens?

Makes me want to dust off the varmint gun. by chuckles (4.00 / 1) #6 Sun May 11, 2008 at 01:55:37 AM EST

For the rat-like burrowing creature, not MH.

Skateboarding is a crime.

Prairie dogs are awesome by duxup (2.00 / 0) #7 Mon May 12, 2008 at 01:09:45 PM EST

A small zoo next to where I used to live had a bunch of them in a big pen at the center of the zoos main courtyard for a long time. From time to time they'd tunnel under the large courtyard and escape into various parts of the zoo. A few unfortunate ones would pop up in the wolf pens or someplace like that.

The zoo would round them up again with traps and they'd escape the next year and the cycle would continue.

That was until they made an epic escape managing to get into the buffalo pens (very large) unseen and from there tunneled to the neighboring park and uncharacteristically all emptied into the park.

They went wild digging up new burrows and standing atop them barking like mad. It was a popular park for elementary school students to go visit on field trips so it was full of prairie dogs digging like mad, barking, and being chased by kids.

Several made their way across the road to the nearby houses where they gorged their way thru every visible garden / flower bed. Some victoriously claiming the yard as their own proudly parched atop a new mound littered with the leftovers from the flowers and garden foods that they couldn't manage to hork down.

A year later the zoo got a big new pen, with prairie dog proof base.... or so they think.
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