Anyone ever sighted a woodchuck in tree?!

[ron w]

Many times.....

[ranger 3]

I can say I haven't but I have never hunted them in the trees.    

[rraming]

I've seen one in a tree but didn't see how it got there.

I also saw a flying squirrel once but still and not sure what I saw

[K.S.TRAPPER]

I see lots of them resting in the trees,  sunning and feeding on mulberrys and just climbing around exspeacially the young ones along the river I fish all summer long.

Tracy

[NYRON]

Yes! From a stand, I once watched the top of a smallish apple tree swaying back and forth about 50 yards away in an overgrown orchard. I was sure that it was a buck making a rub (though I've never seen a rub on an apple tree), but I didn't have a clear view through the brush. A few minutes later the culprit appeared as he headed past my stand--a young woodchuck toting an apple as big has his head! So much for my buck.

[jabodnar]

When I was in highschool my neighbors cut down several acres to create a pasture for horses.  The woodchucks quickly started to make a mess and they offered me $10 a head.  Best job I ever had...

I used to sit tucked back in the trees in an old lawn chair waiting for them to come out.  I remember seeing one about 20 ft up an old oak.  I must have watched it for 30 minutes in disbelief (really, just trying to make sure I wasn't about to shoot their cat...).  

Never met anybody else that's seen this and now there's two pages of people who have.

[mlsthmpsn]

There is an old hay barn next to my place, still full of hay from many years ago. A lot of boards are bow out and loos, and some broken off.

A woodchuck makes his home in there every year in a spot where two boards are broken near the concrete foundation wall. This foundation wall is probably 3ft high, and his hole is above that a ways in the corner of what use to be four square bales...he jumps up and dives straight in that hole, no problem!

Craziest thing I've ever seen one do.


Otherwise, I regularly see them sunning on top of some big brush piles out there near the barn.

[olddogrib]

Yes, they're accomplished climbers.  How someone answers that question will definitively tell whether they are a country boy or a city slicker. That or the Ernest T. Bass gold standard test...do they know how to "ta git a postum out frum unner a rock?"

[frank bullitt]

Yep! My son and I saw one climbing a tree in our woods along the creek.

Last year, behind our work building saw one in a mulberry tree, also.

[ISP 5353]

I had one climb a tree 10 yards from my stand and then proceed to take a nap on a limb.  Very funny!

[Orion]

Can't say as I have.  Did see a very large snapping turtle about 20 feet up in a tree once.  It was on a large tree leaning at about a 45degree angle out over the water, with a bend somewhat like a rainbow.  Pretty steep, but it no doubt climbed to get up there.  

Would like to have stayed around to see how it got down, crawl backward down the tree trunk or just take a 20 foot dive into the river?  In a canoe as part of a group outing at the time, and couldn't retrieve my camera from the dry pack fast enough to get a pix.

[Bladepeek]

I heard Phil was hiding out in one after his early spring prediction.

[elkhunter-27]

We had one sitting in a crook of one of our apple trees, about 6 feet up.

[nek4me]

I never saw one personally but remember a picture of one up a tree in Outdoor Life years ago so knew they could climb. Did have a unusual experience with one a couple summers ago. Have a 2nd story deck off back of house with a veggie garden below it and stairs going up alongside the garden. Kept my mower under the stairs. Took the mover out from under the stairs
and around the garden to the driveway on other side to gas it up. Maybe a 40ft push. Had trouble like the wheels were locking up as it was getting hard to push but kept pushing. Made it to the paved drive and when I stopped a good size chuck ran out from under the mower. Never saw him before or since!

[jcar315]

Seen them climb trees AND I've seen them climb over chain link fences too.

[Keith Zimmerman]

Yep, up trees and fence posts.

[stagetek]

I've seen plenty of woodchucks, but never one in a tree.

[Cory Mattson]

Yes - PA 1976 - walking out from trout fishing wild brook trout - a woodchuck climbed up a a tree - about 15 feet laid out on a limb - stayed there and watched us - seemed reasonably confident as most treed game - left him about his business - thought it was cool.
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[Killdeer]

Saw one up a small tree at Spruce Knob, WV, a few years back. Did not note which species of tree, though.

My husband, who grew up with the nickname Whistle Pig, was much amused.

Killdeer  

[David Mitchell]

Sure have.  At the time I didn't think they could climb a tree.