I am pretty sure this chipmunk lives in the Canoe House, everyday it scurries around with some food in their cheeks. 

I was walking on the Kip Track, practicing Tree ID for my biology class, when this tree frog caught my eye. It was resting sleepily in a big fissure in a white pine tree. He hardly moved as I took photo after photo of him. I also got a couple photos of a chattering chipmunk.

I love getting an up close view of animals in their natural habitat!

You don't have to go far to find wildlife in the North Country. Just on a short walk around SLU campus we saw a groundhog, some bunnies, lots of crows, and a chipmunk eating a donut.

Students in the SLU mammalogy class did some live-trapping of small mammals. Here we see two images of a deer mouse and one of a chipmunk. All were released unharmed, a little full of peanut butter, to the woods.

While climbing the rocks we heard the warning chirp of the chipmunk. We climbed up to see we realized we had disturbed his meal.

This little chipmunk was firmly ensconced in the hollow of a tree in front of Vilas Hall, while several of his friends were scampering about below in the ivy. There seem to be LOTS of chipmunks about this year....unless they are only haunting (stalking?) me.....

There had been a dry spell in the North Country, and a warm one at that, perfect for celebrating the end of a long and snowy spring semester with some "studying" at St. Lawrence University. The growers all around are worried about their parched veggies as they run around with sloshing buckets and hissing hoses. The students are worried about their papers, their exams, their departing friends as they lay out in the fresh sunlight or take procrastination trips to the ice cream stand. It's all very delightful in that teeth grinding way for everyone accept me, the visiting alumni.