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Related: About this forumCan woodchucks run in reverse?
Recently, my mother told her friends and I a funny story about a woodchuck. I googled "poems about woodchucks" and could find only two and they were mean! So, I decided to write about her encounter:
ENCOUNTER WITH AN AGILE MARMOT
Its woodchuck season again.
In fields and woodlands
they abound.
I drive slowly,
knowing theyre around.
The land beaver or whistlepig
is a climber like its squirrel cousin,
only much bigger.
Woodchuck has roots in
Native American:
wejack, woodshaw, wuchak,
and monax, the digger.
A few days ago
my mother told a story
of a chuck that ran
in front of her motorcycle.
She claimed it pedaled straight backward.
Can they do that?
Surely, thats a first????
The very next day
one waddled in front of my truck.
I braked and it turned
and walked back to the grass.
I guess his gears did not
include reverse.
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Walleye
(33,709 posts)RSherman
(576 posts)Well, I guess that gets to be your special secret! I've never seen one climb. I was skiing once and saw a porcupine high up in a tree. We were eye to eye from the chairlift.
Walleye
(33,709 posts)doc03
(36,181 posts)in eastern Ohio. It was our playground we had free rein to hunt, fish, shoot, swim, I even ran across a couple
patches of marijuana that I never got near. People had varmint rifles and bragged about the distance we
shot groundhogs from. I have seen groundhogs climbing trees before. The coal companies sold all that land now it
is posted no trespassing. I quit hunting about 25 years ago, I couldn't shoot anything now except with a camera.
Walleye
(33,709 posts)Rebl2
(14,285 posts)My husband and I were on our deck several years ago and saw some baby groundhogs run up a willow tree a little way. Neither of us had seen that before.
Waterguy
(258 posts)Deep in the valley of the forest
It was the wood chucker's paradise.
Where the rivers run their course /
The most perfect place to be/ if
you wanted to keep it green
you needed them.
You'd walk by and marvel at what they did because you understood.
To be a wood chucker, an architect, born to have that instinct,
in the exact correct place.
What Beauty
so succinct / whoa... Slow down Johnny, don't get the wrong
Idea. Think! Nature, you know, naturally sometimes human being's
go a tad bit too far with motor mechanized movement of Mother Earths
surface - like, where-ever...
Well, there's that, and then, there's all the hunting for beaver skins
That went down.
Note - the one thing may not have led to the other. But, I'm just saying!
They kind of did!!!
Peace!
RSherman
(576 posts)Thanks for sharing!
mikelewis
(4,141 posts)... a wood chuck chuck' line... and I'm certain if this particular chat room had more visitors, the response would be witty and charming. But I must admit... I might be a little drunk.