On the morning of the 13, I decided i was going to try and get my local chipmunks to feed from my hand. I got inspired from somebody on Tiktok who trained his chipmunks to hand feed.

At first, I started by simply placing walnuts around my yard. Soon a chipmunk found one of the places. I had to replace the walnut every few minutes, because the chipmunk kept shoving them into his cheeks. Soon, he would just creep up to me, as soon as he wanted more walnuts. I kept just tossing them to him. I tossed them closer and closer until, when i came to me after each trip, he would start running in circles around me, waiting for me to throw one. One time, I just put a few walnuts on my hand, and let my hand down on the walkway, he hesitated, but ran right up to my hand, and started eating them. Over the next few hours, we emptied an entire container of Pecans, and an identical container of walnuts. He kept running up to me, filling his cheeks, running off, he would be gone for a few minutes, and then i would notice him again, running circles around me. He was still very cautious though, and if i moved suddenly, or stood up, he would dart away.

I am going to keep feeding them, so that more chipmunks will learn about me, and I can start feeding the whole neighborhood. Below are some pictures of him.