Guillermo Peanut Stuffin'

I put a few peanuts out for Guillermo to enjoy this morning and the funniest thing happened!  He tried to get all three of them in his mouth at the same time!  Check out the progression of peanuts into his cheeks in this set of pictures:

Before Peanuts:

He gave up trying to get that third peanut into his mouth.  He must have thought he was being selfish so he left it behind for his friend Billy Bluejay who promptly swooped in and picked it up.

Chipmunks like Guillermo are really small, about the size of a child's hand, so they don't like to be out in the open where birds and other animals can see them.  So when they get tasty snacks like peanuts, they stuff them into their mouths and run off to a secret place like a tree house or a fort.  Then they'll take them out of their mouths and hold them in their hands while biting off the shell to get to the nuts inside.