Pair of Uinta Ground Squirrels in a sagebrush – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/1000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 2.4x TC, natural light
As I photographed a pair of Uinta Ground Squirrels in a sagebrush high up in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday I realized that before long these squirrels will be gone from my view. I felt a twinge of sadness because I don’t feel that I have spent as much time taking images of them as I would have liked to have done this year and they will soon be spending their time underground. After all, they only spend about 3 1/2 months of their lives above ground and I started photographing them in early May.
Uinta Ground Squirrel perched on sagebrush – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 2.4x TC, natural light
It would be impossible for me not to hear the “tick tock” of Nature’s clock at times especially when it comes to birds and animals where I know I only have a short window of opportunity in which to photograph them. I’m hearing it now with these ground squirrels, with the shorebirds that are already heading south through the Great Salt Lake area and while photographing the bird species that breed here but spend the rest of their lives elsewhere. Tick tock, tick tock. I need to get busy before they are gone.
Life is good.
Mia
Click here to see more of my Uinta Ground Squirrel photos plus facts and information about this species.
Love these wonderful shots…esp. The first!!!
Adorable rascals.
Yet another charmer we don’t have and I will not see. Many thanks. I had no idea that they spend so much of their lives underground either.
Love these little guys need gals! Thanks for posting portraits!
So glad (and a little jealous 😉 ) that you get to spend time with these charmers. And very grateful that your share your experience with all of us.
Great shots, thanks for sharing!!!
Such lovely shote of these squirrels. Thanks for all the pleasure you bring to others.