Woodchuck - Marmota monax - dives into its burrow at Kaercher Creek Park. Perhaps better known in these parts as a groundhog, these giant ground squirrels which range from Alaska to Labrador and south to Georgia reminded the early German settlers of the grundsow of their native land although this another species altogether. The Groundhog Day nonsense was an ancient superstition related to the grundsow which the colonists transferred to out North American woodchuck.