A thirteen-lined ground squirrel going about his business near Smuts, Saskatchewan.
As I approached he crouched down and then I took one step too many...
...his small body stretched out and he was gone in a flash down into the safety of his burrow. I definitely got too close for comfort.
Photographed on August 4, 2020.
I've never seen one of these - either for real or in pictures. Such amazing stripes on his body.
ReplyDeleteThey're pretty cute all right! Thanks MA.
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