Today we discover a rodent called a red vole lurking around our tent. The red vole, according the the Britannica website (there is no wikipedia entry yet):...can be agricultural pests. Nearly all voles are terrestrial, traveling through tunnels in grass or beneath snow or via elaborate subsurface burrows. There are, however, some dramatic exceptions. Arboreal red and Sonoma tree voles (Arborimus longicaudus and A. pomo, respectively) are found only in humid coastal old-growth forests of northern California and...
This animal had a habit of climbing up the side of our tent and sliding down repeatedly. We wasted a few hours waiting for them to get half way down to hit the underside of the tent and launch them into the forest. Then we would hear them scamper back to our tent to start the process over again. One actually made it into the tent...
