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In the warm weather I often sit in the back yard for an hour or so to read a book.  The Eastern chipmunk who lives in the back yard often sits on top of a wood pile and watches me.  Today he (I don’t know whether it is male or female, but I’m guessing it is male since I have never seen it with any offspring) was doing a lot of chattering.  At one point I thought he was chattering to get my attention.  So I gave him a little bit of Audubon Society “critter food,” a combination of cracked corn and various seeds.  Then later he was doing more chattering.  I don’t know whether he was trying to communicate with another chipmunk at a distance or whether he just enjoyed hearing the sound of his own chattering.  Some birds were singing and I had the radio on playing a Brandenburg concerto.  Maybe he was just adding to the music.