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Kentucky Color: Longtime Residence By Billy Joe Fudge The evidence is overwhelming that this hollowed out Scarlet oak (photo with article) has been a residence, probably for decades. That evidence is rodent droppings piled outside the door. This den is the winter home of the noisy little Eastern chipmunk, or at least that is what the evidence shows. They spend much of the winter sleeping for extended periods of time. They are not true hibernators, since they wake up every now and again. When they wake up they eat the nuts, acorns and seeds that they have stored in their den. They don't stray far from their den, thus the droppings pile up outside the entrance. Their distant cousins, Grey and Fox squirrels, are out and about all winter feeding on the same food sources as the chipmunks, some of which they may have hidden during late summer or fall. Therefore their droppings are scattered around all over the place. I grew up here in the Great Wooded South calling chipmunks "ground squirrels". According to most sources, there are no ground squirrels in Kentucky. They are larger than chipmunks, live mostly out in fields and hibernate in burrows all winter. The manmade items in the photo are: the most famous walking stick in the Great Wooded South, my Biltmore stick that is used to measure tree diameters and of course, the notebook for recording estimated footages of the standing timber. This story was posted on 2025-11-02 21:32:40
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