Happy Face
A California ground squirrel puts on his happy face on the auto tour at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in California. While I enjoyed my visit to the refuge, I had to cancel the rest of my trip as an unexpected snowstorm trapped me in Redding for a couple of days, then I just made it home to Portland before an ice storm trapped me there.
These ground squirrels are also native to Oregon, and in fact there are some that live on the campus where I work, but unfortunately I rarely get to see them in the places that I hike the most.
