Our Little Friends Are Back

Yesterday, we were talking with some guests in the living room, when just outside the big picture window was this Harris Antelope Ground Squirrel. He was standing on a rock looking in at us. (I didn't have my camera so this is an earlier photo.) I was reminded of just how much fun they are. They stay underground during the cold winter months although they do not "hibernate." But it is starting to warm up here so we are starting to see them. Their tail is bushy and in the summer months held back over it's body -- as an umbrella to keep them cool. When they run they are like those little Matchbox Cars of the 60's and 70's. They zoom around as if hydroplaning. You can't see the feet move at all. Although, they look like Chipmunks they are in fact, squirrels and only found in Southern Arizona.