Just a little look at life at National Wildlife Federation headquarters in Reston, VA. We have a family of groundhogs that lives out back, just one of the many species that makes its home near our wildlife-friendly property (the American Institute of Architects named NWF headquarters as one of its top ten green projects of 2002).

I spotted this chubby little guy gathering dead grass, then waddling off with a bunch of it. I'm assuming it was planning to use the grass to line its winter den. Nothing cuter than when the groundhog pups emerge in the spring!