Eastern Chipmunk

This guy crawled onto the gutter drain while I was standing on the deck box, waiting for some birds to photograph. He didn't notice me at first, but as soon as I positioned my camera to photo him, he let out a silly squeal, and hid inside the top drain hole. I stood completely still waiting for the moment he would appear again, and sooner or later he came out!

Later I found him at the bottom of the squirrel-feeder, which had been recently taken over by a chickadee and a nuthatch, picking up the leftover corn and stuffing as much as he could into his cheeks before the fighting birds came back.