10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2015
In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. No “gophers” etc. However, they tend to be rather secretive due to hunting pressure (by humans, not too many wolves yet in Germany), and are therefore a rare sight especially in densely populated areas.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Here Patch sits on a bench watching a pocket gopher tidy up the front of its burrow. Here she is carrying a squirming gopher over the heads of park-goers who actually notice the spectacle. A lot of nature photographers try to exclude human made elements but I think the porta potty kind of makes the photo.
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