Gopher start

I trapped my first pocket gophers of the year.  I set a couple traps before I started my census work a few weeks ago, and now that I am done with delivering census questionnaires, I checked those traps today.  Both traps had a dead gopher.  Yes!

Trap number one had the gopher I was trying to trap last year to be my 250th pocket gopher.  He wasn't my 250th, but instead my first.

My second pocket gopher and trap were buried in dirt.  It is Spring and the pocket gophers are paired up for breeding and babies.  I cleared and left the trap for the other gopher.