I’ve been seeing chipmunks along the edge of the parking lot
at Miner’s Castle. I’d seen them occasionally, but recently the elm tree near
my parking space released its seeds, and a lot of them have blown up against
the edge of the grass and the parking lot. This is an all-you-can-eat buffet
for the chipmunks, who don’t even have to dig through the grass for the seeds!
Today, however, they were going for something more than
seeds. I was almost to my car when I spotted two chipmunks a couple of spaces
over. One seemed to be foraging for seeds, but the other one was wrestling with
the wrapper from a snack-sized bag of Doritos! The other one came over to
investigate, and crunched the wrapper – causing the first one to jump in terror
and flee into the grass! Then he came back and they were squabbling over the
prize. I watched for a minute before going over and confiscating the chip bag,
sending it to be forever out of reach in the bear-proof trash can.
It’s a shame someone didn’t throw their trash away, but
at least I got a cute performance out of it!
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