Traditional Rodents and Rabbits Beaver Marmot Mouse (also Voles and Lemmings) Muskrat Pocket Gopher (also Moles) Porcupine Rabbits & Hares Shrew Squirrels & Ground Squirrels Woodchuck
Beaver (taxidermy)
Beaver Lodge
Beaver lodge in Bow River
Same beaver lodge in the Bow River as above, but this picture was taken from up on the ridge.
Beaver Dam
Beaver Cuttings
Sometimes busy beaver bites off more than he can chew. Oh well - maybe the job will be finished later.
Beaver lodge with winter supply of food - poplar and willow cuttings.
Jackrabbit wearing his winter coat
Snowshoe Hare (young hare)
Nuttail's Cottontail Rabbit (taxidermy)
Cottontail Rabbit
House Mouse
House mouse
Dying Mouse
Northern Grasshopper Mouse (taxidermy)
Deer Mouse (taxidermy)
Mouse tracks in the snow
Mouse hole in the snow
Vole (taxidermy)
Hoary Marmots Hibernating (taxidermy)
Muskrat swimming
Muskrat preparing to dive
Muskrat feeding on the root of a water plant - probably roots of the reeds shown in the picture..
Muskrat House in Winter on Frank Lake, Alberta
Pocket Gopher Mounds
Pocket Gopher (taxidermy)
Mother porcupine nursing baby porcupine
Young porcupine with burs stuck in its hair
Porcupine in Willow Tree
Porcupine killed by vehicle on the highway - road kill.
Columbian Ground Squirrel
Columbian Ground Squirrel gathering up grass in its mouth.
Least Chipmunk
Chipmunk eating a chokecherry
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Nursing Female Gopher with cheek pouches stuffed full of food.
Gopher hole
Gopher Hibernating (taxidermy)
Technically called a Richardson's Ground Squirrel, but most people just use the word gopher.
Prairie Dog
Water Shrew (taxidermy)
Arctic Shrew (with winter fur on left , and summer fur on the right) - taxidermy
Black Squirrel
Grey Squirrel
Red Squirrel
Silhouette of Red Squirrel
Red Squirrel Midden
Red Squirrel stealing picnicker's sandwich
Woodchuck or Groundhog (taxidermy) - sorry about the glare on this shot. This is the best original woodchuck photo we can come up with so far.
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Jackrabbit tracks in the fresh
snow.
Which direction was this big bunny going
? 
