Bunny In My Yard
A wildlife morning with chipmunk and rabbit visitors. I feel lucky to see just one, but both within minutes, was extra special.
Cherry Eating Chipmunk
The little Chipmunk who lives in my garden, has been eating the cherries off my cherry bushes. Here you can see it stuffing it's cheeks. Today we got very close and it even ate sunflower seeds from my hand.
Chipmunks are part of the squirrel family and they are smaller, with alternating light and dark stripes along their cheeks and backs.
There are 25 species of chipmunk, 24 of which live in North America. Chipmunks are excellent tree climbers and swimmers who live in a variety of habitats, including plains, mountains, forests, and deserts. Chipmunks like to live alone in holes or burrows called dens.
Chipmunks hibernate in cold weather, which means they spend most of the winter sleeping in their dens. One chipmunk can gather up to 165 acorns in a day. In just two days, a chipmunk can collect enough food to last an entire winter, although chipmunks typically hoard much more food than necessary.
Chipmunk young are born in late spring, and stay in the nest for up to six weeks. Female chipmunks have one or two litters per year, each with four or five babies. Chipmunks are 7.2 to 8.5 inches (18.5 to 21.6 centimeters) long including their tails, which can account for nearly half of their length.
Blue Jay
Darting around the yard, scavenging for insects.
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