Why did the feds allow the Station Fire to get out of hand? To have an excuse to spray cancer-causing chemicals disguised as fire retardant over the broadest possible area of The Southland. You have captured one of the first victims on video!
It kind of looks like a leaf stuck to a rodent or something with a really bushy tale... looks all "matted" up. Actually now that I look at it maybe its a skunk with its defenses up.
At first I thought it was a frizzed out skunk. However, I gotta' go with hvydrt and Greg on that one. Looks like an opossum with leaves stuck on its arse.
The real question is why the leaves are stuck there. Maybe the opossum had diarrhea at an inopportune time...
Or it didn't have toilet paper and had to use sycamore (or maple) leaves and forgot to finish the wipe... the animal kingdom's version of walking around with TP stuck on your shoe.
BTW, J., your videos have been great lately. Thank you for all of your hard work!