Backyard Wildlife

Looks like a Vole, I'd guess a Montane Vole. Voles are pretty cyclic, sometimes many & sometimes very few.
 
Looks like a Vole, I'd guess a Montane Vole. Voles are pretty cyclic, sometimes many & sometimes very few.
What's puzzling is that we have been in this house for 24 years and this is a first.
To the best of my knowledge the neighbors on either side have never had an issue and the State Park borders our backyard with no evidence of mounds.
 
To the best of my knowledge the neighbors on either side have never had an issue and the State Park borders our backyard with no evidence of mounds.
Some critters expand their range. There were never Wild Turkeys around Tri Cities until a few years ago, no Whitetail Deer in the Deerlodge Valley, or thousands of Snow Geese around the Tri Cities.
 
Ya got yer gnawty beavers and yer naughty beavers . . .
 
(S)nailed it!
 
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