Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) in the Vale of Cashmere. Cute as the dickens, but you know, without any predators they can become quite a problem, being predators themselves.
Your Morning Chipmunk
4 responses to “Your Morning Chipmunk”
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I’ve seen red-tailed hawks go after them. Do any of the smaller hawks?
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I don’t know. A female Cooper’s could probably take one, but accipiters generally go for birds. It’s not that they have no predators at all, but that whole fox/coyote/wolf mammal level is missing in the city, barring those coyotes who wander in, but then they take the easy route and go for our spoils.
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So we’re left with feral cats and unleashed dogs.
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Ugh.
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