He’s been living in the corner of this field for a long time.
Here Carolyn visits with him: 
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 May 2010.
So it could get back to digging.
More pictures in the flickr set.
I noticed this gopher because the dogs kept yipping and running over to where she was. She eventually crawled off into the underbrush and went under, as you can see.
The pictures were taken with a wireless Ethernet camera, recorded by software run out of crontab every minute. The recording ends when it started to rain and I took the camera in.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 16 September 2009.
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It’s only about 9 inches across. I’m not certain it’s a gopher, since it doesn’t have the flattened shell top. But it’s acting like a gopher, and is not near water.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia.