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Spermophilus beecheyi
grey, lighter below. spotted back. White ring around the eyes. long tail, moderately bushy, but not as bushy as tree squirrels.
chaparral, lives in the burrows in the spotting before it: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/220...
Spotted on Apr 20, 2013
Submitted on Apr 22, 2013
2 Comments
Thanks! They were having baby squirrels, but I didn't see any of them. They were hard to get close enough to take a picture. It took me two days. They were under siege from a pair of hawks nesting in a line of trees near my campsite.
So cute! I wish I could have seen it! And not just a picture!