A small mammal scurried from pine to pine as my wife and I ambled along the soggy, 1.5-mile Chapel Gorge Trail outside the Wisconsin Dells in late March.
I casually assumed it was an eastern chipmunk, then I caught a flash of red. Aha, an American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). It is one of my favorite mammals. Sometimes hunters or locals call them pine squirrels, which is apt because they favor pine or evergreen areas.
