Eastern Chipmunk

A eastern chipmunk shows up in my notebook once or twice a season, always unplanned.

They’re more predictable than they look once you know the daily timing.

I avoid published counts of population estimates here. My interest is a sightings journal, not a density map.

One sighting that sticks: a single animal crossing an open flat with no cover, moving faster than I expected.

There is no ID problem here, only a distance problem and a light problem.