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Regular Holes in Field: Ground Squirrels or Voles?

2-inch clean holes, no soil mounds, linked underground, in a field/garden. Likely ground squirrels (chipmunks, 13-lined) if seen daytime. If never seen, probably voles (nocturnal, no surface mounds). Location needed for certainty.

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