A prairie dog close-up

I spent half an hour in a prairie dog town a few days ago.  The prairie dogs are out of hibernation and wary as ever.  I have to photograph them from inside the car, because they don’t register cars as a threat.  I thought I could use a tripod outside the window while I stayed inside, but the prairie dogs weren’t having any of it. 

Then one took a wrong turn underground and popped out a hole fifteen feet away.   It looked left,

it looked right,

and then it looked straight at my head sticking out of the car window, and ran away. 

I could make a collage of out-of-focus pictures of animals running away, but today I’ll just stick to this prairie dog.