I saw the post about the wood chuck climbing the tree. It made re think of the gopher I saw standong ON TOP of a fence post last summer. Has anyone seen that one? Damn I wish I had, had a camera.

The chef

I see the ground squirrels here climbing posts all the time, until the hawks and eagles show up.

Calgarychef1: I have wracked my brain for two days now trying to remember seeing a Ground Squirrel up on top of a fence post!
I simply can't remember one atop a post!
Now I have seen them in the top branches of Sage Brush bushes many times and they are adept limbers when theres lots to hold onto. I have seen Ground Squirrels in Nevada, California, Oregon, Montana, Washington and some in Alberta but I can never recall seeing one on top of a fence post. That would make a nice picture to post here if you get a chance again! I have also seen a couple of the larger size Ground Squirrels up in NW Montana that had climbed to a height of about 3 or 4 feet in the upturned edge of a blown over Evergreen trees root ball! So they are not afraid of "heights" and I am just puzzled why after having viewed many tens of thousands of Ground Squirrels and ten times that many fence posts - I have never seen a Ground Squirrel up a fence post.
Maybe someday - I will keep an eye out for them from now on.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Hello;
My favorites are the ones that manage do dig a hole right in the road bed. I've seen several of these. When you take a run at the arrogant little bastards, standing there, they just duck down the hole.
Grizz

Grizzly Adams: There is a childrens game called "Whack-A-Mole"! In brief you try to whack the toy moles with a plastic hammer when they pop up from alteranting hole options!
We "adults" sometimes play the Montana version of "Whack-A-Mole" with our vehicles out on our country roads!
I for the most part refrain from this swerve and whack'em "sport" as I would rather shoot them!
What puzzles me is how they dig holes in the incredibly hard compacted ground of our roads?
Long live the Ground Squirrels!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

It sure would be embarassing to lose a game of "whack-a-mole" running your 40k+ "hammer" in the ditch.
I too am unable to recall seeing a gopher on top of a fence post. Although I have seen them as high as the third tier of round bale hay stacks.

None on fence posts--but LOTS atop big boulders, for sure. One such GS got himself cartwheeled off of same at a paced off distance of 550 yards a couple years ago by yours truly with the 22-250/60 grain Sierra combo, from sitting position. My longest critter shot ever. With the 60 grainers sighted dead-on at 300 yards, I held about 1.5 rat-heights over his head, and let drive. Seeing the bugger spin away through the scope was right satisfying--and not a little surprising.

Around here the farmers are baling hay using the large round bales. I shot several chucks that were on top of these bales suning this year. One was standing up looking away from me. That was the only reason I saw him.