So, although York didn’t see his shadow on Prairie Dog Day, we got 20 inches of snow the next day. I’m not sure I’ll have new pictures of anything but snow even by next week, so here’s one from earlier this month.
Since my family is 4 adults and 1 juvenile there hasn’t been much playing since the summer, but here I got to see a bit of rare wrasslin’.
When the weather is 65 and the sun is beating down on you in January, sometimes it’s best to just lay down and soak up the sun, seeing as how it’s likely to snow again any day.
The surest way to tell if a prairie dog barking far off is warning of danger or yelling at a neighbor on its territory is to look at the prairie dogs near you. Do they look concerned or run to their holes? Or do they continue eating while one casually looks over toward the noise? You can’t speak prairie dog, but you can catch hints sometimes. For the record, these guys are reacting to “warning” barking.
With the weather alternating between snowstorms and 50s highs the melting snow is producing a little bit of greenery, which the prairie dogs like more than the abundant dead grass right now.