Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

More Squirrel Tuesday

I found this Gray Squirrel a few minutes after spotting the Groundhog I posted pictures of yesterday. Later, looking in an old guidebook to North American mammals, I noted that Groundhogs are in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. In fact, they are the biggest of our squirrels.

Humph!

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