Today was an interesting day as far as observing a chipmunk was concerned.  Earlier in the day, I was shaking my head, wondering if I was seeing what I was seeing. What I was seeing appeared to be a chipmunk with something quite large in its mouth that at first I couldn’t make out. After a second glanbounce, I realized that the chipmunk had what appeared to be a smaller chipmunk in its mouth as it ran along the fence line of my site here at the trailer.  As it ran along the fence line, I called out to C. to take a look. We were both not sure we were seeing what we were seeing – whatever was in the Chipmunk’s mouth looked dead.

The chipmunk bounded up over the fence at the next site over, and then seemed to disappear into a tree. C. and I wondered if we were seeing things.

A couple of hours later, we saw it again! This time, we were sure that the the Chipmunk was carrying a smaller chipmunk in its mouth.  But it looked large enough to walk on its own – I’ve seen small baby chipmunks walking around before. So why was this chipmunk carrying the smaller one? And where was it going? I tried to take a picture – had my camera on – but before I could focus on it, the chipmunk carrying the chipmunk scrambled out of sight.

A few hours later, I was standing in front of the table where I was doing some cooking on the Coleman stove when I glanced movement out of the side of my eye.  I looked, and not ten feet away from my leg, the Chipmunk again was running from the west side to the east side with what seemed like a smaller chipmunk in its mouth.  It took me by surprise, and I wished I had the camera ready at that point, but the little animal was gone in seconds.

I wonder what the chipmunk was doing carrying little ones that seemed big enough to walk, and yet seemed lifeless?

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