Calling Uinta Ground Squirrel – Nikon D810, f9, 1/640, ISO 500, -0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
I was very happy to photograph this Uinta Ground Squirrel calling from a lichen covered boulder last week in southwestern Montana. I like these little squirrels a lot and don’t get to see them all that much because they are really only above ground for a few months a year. I also liked it because it was on top of a orange-red lichen covered boulder and it was calling out loudly.
Maybe it was saying “I am not cold, don’t put me in the back or your vehicle!”, “Step away from the hot springs now!” or “I’m smiling already, take the picture!”. Perhaps it was simply using its outdoor voice to warn other ground squirrels about the woman with the long lens peering at them.
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Life is good.
Mia
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Mine. All mine. I was here first.
“It’s NOT ginger! It’s ‘Sienna Glow’!”
I can almost hear that ear-piercing whistle-squeak from here!!! Sure has its alarm face on….
“Don’t put me in the back of your vehicle”…I wonder what was really going on with that baby bison…and where the heck its mama was…can’t figure put how those well-meaning, but unknowing folks got away with doing that if she, or a bull, were anywhere around…I still have a lot of unanswered question about that whole sad, unfortunate incident…
Yes.
Cute photo, Mia.
ALAN, ALAN ALAN!!
Lol!