Timberline: A Ferrot and other small animals

Timberline: A Ferrot and other small animals

(Timberline part 27)

I had been able to see deer every year I was at that camp. Usually they were small does and once in a while a buck. The most fun though came to me by watching a ferrot chasing after chipmunks. There were a lot of chipmunks running around on the ground and through the trees by my camp. Two years in a row I was pleased to see a beautiful ferrot also frequent my camp. It was there to catch dinner and that was when I learned they loved chipmunk delight. I was fascinated as I saw it chase a chipmunk way up into the tree next to my tent. They were both moving very fast but when the chipmunk jumped to the ground from 15 feet in the air from the end of the branch they were on and then scrambled to safety on the ground leaving the ferrot way up in the tree unable or unwilling to make the same jump. I realized then that dinner using chipmunk as the course was probably not a real frequent event. I was able to photograph the ferrot a umber of times as it made it’s way around the branches of the tree looking for more chipmunks.