We often have animal visitors come to call and always enjoy seeing them. This Cottontail (I think it was him) stayed around here most of the winter, living I believe, under a deck of firewood logs in our canyon.
While fairly common in the high country (there is a mountain just north of there named after them), this is the first Yellow-bellied Marmot that has ever visited our yard. He liked the flowers.
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