Rick Macomber reports this gopher was chowing down the last of a four-leaf clover at Salem Willows in Salem.
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Can I get an adorable???
By anon
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 2:33pm
Can I get an adorable???
That's no moon!
By Cranky
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 2:49pm
It's a woodchuck!
Not a gopher
By anon
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 2:57pm
Muskrat. There are no gophers in MA
Groundhog maybe?
By adamg
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 3:07pm
We've got plenty of those.
Woodchuck
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 4:43pm
Doing some in-cider trading? Clover is gluten free:
[img]http://www.woodchuck.com/ui/images/logo.png[/img]
Was Woodchuck the ones with the ads making fun of Oregon Original Ales in the 1990s or so? "Made with Apples, Dirt, and Big Hairy Bugs ... then we stir it up with great big Phillips head screwdriver!"
Marmota monax
By emmee dee
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 9:28pm
No "true" gophers in MA, as another commenter points out; gophers are part of the mouse family while groundhogs are in the squirrel branch. That said, common names for plants and animals can be all over the place.
Most of my neighbors call these guys gophers. I'd never heard it before myself (had no idea what they were talking about until I laid eyes on him!), but Wikipedia mentions it in the entry for gopher. I've never heard anyone call them whistle pigs either, but apparently that's also a thing.
Definitely a groundhog, not a
By DTP
Wed, 06/17/2020 - 9:00am
Definitely a groundhog, not a gopher.
Hyde Park
By Swarthy Guy
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 3:12pm
Where your intrepid commenter lives in the forgotten area of Hyde Park, between Turtle Pond Parkway and East Dedham, those cute little things run the show.
I love Chubs.
By anon
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 7:55pm
I love Chubs.
When are their...
By Don't Panic
Wed, 06/17/2020 - 11:53pm
slim cousins coming down from the Blue Hills to visit us? I never see chipmunks in Mattapan.
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