Yep, baggers are looking for dinner!It's a ground squirrel alright:
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Those darned ratty things are why we've had at least 2 badgers digging holes in our yard (as if the rodents didn't dig enough holes of their own).
Coyotes here in South Texas follow baggers around and catch rats, rabbits or what ever else comes out of the mounds the pack rats build as their homes.