Rick300: As of a couple years ago the Ground Squirrels have literally appeared (migrated!) into the fields that surround my house and into the edges of my lawns. We have been here 20 years and they had never been here before that!
Sadly along with the Ground Squirrels comes the Badgers - and a Badger last summer dug a big'ol den/hole in my yard.
I have been holding off shooting this Badger all winter as I want one of my travelling, non-Badger state house guest/Hunters, to bonk him this spring.
And I am expecting the flocks of non-native Grackels/Starlings to re-appear here after their winter migration.
So my "worst Varmint" list currently goes Ground Squirrel - Badger then Starlings.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy