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POD...MAR #1/15...Gray Digger

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these look a little smaller than our gray squirrels here (but ours live in trees) - I can only imagine how much of a pest they are!

March 08, 2010

rodents are always nuisances, sad to day. cute though.

March 05, 2010

cute little nuisance.

March 05, 2010

They are cute but oh, so destructive!

March 05, 2010

Darn squirrels! Ours here aren't TOO destructive... they are more obnoxious than anything LOL

March 04, 2010

I'm glad we dont have them here. The moles do enough damage to my back yard as it is.

March 04, 2010

nice shot

March 04, 2010

Little rat in a cute fur coat. I try to hate them but I just can't. Hmmm, I guess I am a shallow person who falls for good looks or substance

March 04, 2010

He looks like he's up to no good!

March 04, 2010

Oh yes, ground squirrels (what we called a different variety of this) are bad news for ranchers.

March 04, 2010

very much like the gophers that cover all of Canada's Prairie Provinces. They are cute, but terrible pests

March 04, 2010

nice catch, they look alot like plain old gray squirrels we have here, except ours live up in the trees.

March 04, 2010

Great capture but I realize now that they can be a real problem!

March 04, 2010

Cute as he is I can see why they would be a nuisance!

March 04, 2010

Very cute!

March 04, 2010

Great catch!

March 04, 2010

POD...MAR #1/15...Gray Digger

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3-1-10...This is a California Ground Squirrel, commonly called a "Gray Digger" here. They are found only in the Pacific Northwest, primarily California, Western Oregon & a small portion of South-Central Washington. While they are cute, they are very destructive rodents. They dig extensive tunneling burrows, 5-30 feet in length & 2-4 feet below the ground's surface in gentle sloping hillsides, ditch banks & fields. A farmer/rancher's nightmare, because the burrows/tunnels can make the ground collapse under farm machinery causing expensive repairs or injuries to the farmer. And they eat the tender green shoots of new crops. The rancher's livestock can step in their holes & break a leg. There is an "open" season on them, eradication is by any means available. [P3017829]

photography California Ground Squirrel "Gray Digger" rodent animal wildlife The/Dalles Mountain Road WA Nature

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