I can't think about Groundhog Day without recalling our
backyard groundhogs, and today I have been imagining them snug in their burrows deep under the snow.
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| A surprise encounter with a groundhog when I went to photograph its burrow entrance. |
Last summer we had two frequent groundhog visitors -- or rather, at least two, since I'm not very confident in my ability to distinguish between individual groundhogs. However, I was sure it had to be at least two. Though we only ever saw one groundhog at a time, the conspicuous difference and rapid alternation between big...
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| The big groundhog. |
...and small groundhogs was enough to convince me that there was more than one.
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| The little groundhog. |
I was especially worried that the small groundhog would make a
tempting target for the red foxes, but it grew steadily larger over the course of the summer, while
the squirrel population steadily declined.
Here is a video of the smaller and larger groundhogs for comparison:
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