Just because we live in the City of Columbus doesn’t mean we don’t get some occasional wildlife. Raccoons, possums, snakes, hawks, owls and —a couple years ago— even a deer have all been spotted on our street, two blocks from downtown Columbus.
As a family, we often travel down the stretch of Nelson Road between Main and Broad Streets. The Railroad tracks are to the West, Alum Creek is to the East with Wolfe Park just beyond it and the Cleo Dumaree Rec Center smack dab in the middle adjacent to Clowson Field-the home field of Capital University’s baseball team.
It’s in this field next to the river where my kids and I look, nearly every day, to catch sight of our groundhog friend. He doesn’t have a neat name like Buckeye Chuck or Punxsutawney Phil, but he is our groundhog and during the Spring and Fall months we see him quite regularly. Sometimes, we even spy what we imagine to be his family, having seen as many as four groundhogs at once a few times.
We haven’t seen our groundhog in a long time though. Must be hibernating. Where is your Columbus Groundhog
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Just because we live in the City of Columbus doesn’t mean we don’t get some occasional wildlife. Raccoons, possums, snakes, hawks, owls and —a couple years ago— even a deer have all been spotted on our street, two blocks from downtown Columbus.
