Lately, acorns have been falling on the roadside, so I decided to give them to the bear, so today I was picking up acorns near the ticket gate.

Then the bus driver told me, ``The acorns here are eaten by the squirrels that often come here.'' Apparently they leave fallen acorns on the curb in front of the ticket gate. Then, the next morning, there were traces of eating!

``Wow, that's wonderful! Everyone must be busy preparing for winter,'' I thought as I walked along the pedestrian bridge towards Bear Point...

Poto.

Potpot

Potopotopotopoto...

``What?!'' I looked up and saw acorns falling.

...What a wonderful thing!A chipmunk is eating an acorn on my head! !

I wondered if he would notice me, so I lowered myself to my knees and stared at him with my mouth hanging open. The chipmunk is already obsessed with acorns. They eat one thing, they eat that thing, and then they drop an acorn with a small insect hole in it without eating it, thinking, ``Oops, it's eaten by a worm.''

My cheek bags are so full that I'm worried I won't be able to take them out later.

It seems that it is rare for chipmunks to climb to the top of a tall tree, and sometimes they lose their balance and almost fall, but somehow they hang on and say, "Fight!"

I contacted the driver I'd talked to earlier by radio and decided to take a photo, so I hurriedly grabbed my camera and by the time I came back, I had climbed up the tree and was eating.

I couldn't stop the excitement, heart pounding, and grin on my face, just like when I discovered a creature I'd never seen before when I was a kid.

Maybe you'll be lucky enough to find it when you walk along the promenade.

If you notice it, please watch over it quietly and warmly. [Keeper: Ito]