Apr 1, 2022
I saw a rockchuck (aka yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris) while I was on my way to a second interview the other day. It galumphed across the road and made me go “what the fuck is that - is that a mustelid of some kind? Raccoon maybe?”
Nope, just a big ol’ ground squirrel. It ducked under that building there before I could get a good picture of its face, but rockchucks are the only things that look even remotely like that around here, and I did see a distinctive set of Rodent Chompers when it looked around at me.