Ground Squirrel

[jc207]

These little guys seem to have made homes in all the feed pens.

[Patton]

I believe that's a chipmunk? Could be wrong. Cool pics nonetheless

[txtimetravler]

Feed pen= food and less predators?

[westtexducks]

I believe that's a chipmunk? Could be wrong. Cool pics nonetheless

Nope that is a ground squirrel, to big for a chipmunk. Shot a lot of these when I was growing up, make a really neat trilling sound when they are telling there buddies that you are there.

Nice pics OP like the one with the corn in his mouth.

[Patton]

Nope that is a ground squirrel, to big for a chipmunk. Shot a lot of these when I was growing up, make a really neat trilling sound when they are telling there buddies that you are there.

Nice pics OP like the one with the corn in his mouth.

Cool, learned something new. Always called this a ground squirrell

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[Shane]

13 lined ground squirrel. Cool little Texas critters.

[mikemorvan]

Nice shots.

[T-Wall88]

Mexican ground squirrel fast little critters

[jc207]

Here's a pic of momma.

[westtexducks]

Cool, learned something new. Always called this a ground squirrell

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I have also seen one of those, they are quite a bit bigger than the ground squirrels, the one I saw was actually a little bit bigger than a regular tree squirrel. The ground squirrels are a little smaller than a tree squirrel. At least for the ones I have dealt with.

[westtexducks]

Here is that sound I was talking about, thought I was going crazy first time I heard one make that sound.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KoY07oVhDE"]13-lined ground squirrel - YouTube[/ame]

[Patton]

I have also seen one of those, they are quite a bit bigger than the ground squirrels, the one I saw was actually a little bit bigger than a regular tree squirrel. The ground squirrels are a little smaller than a tree squirrel. At least for the ones I have dealt with.

Agreed, they are much larger.

I just shot two of them in Rocksprings this past August for my uncle (his ranch) to mount on a piece of really pretty Black Walnut tree trunk. He has a good amount out there so he asked my to pick two unique ones. I shot one that had a goldish colored back-half; instead of the regular grey. The next one I killed for him had all sorts of red markings up and down his upper half including a dime sized red spot in the middle of her forehead.

[Codyboy72]

cool pics!