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Uinta Ground Squirrels Eating Earthworms

By Mia McPherson|2024-04-20T08:51:19-05:00April 26th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: break, canyon, chewing, chowing down, devouring, earthworm, earthworms, eating, grasses, ground, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, meal, mountains, mouth, mud, muddy, munching, nibbling, rain, spring, squirrel, squirrels, stuffing, tongue, tugging, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, wet, worm, worms, wrestling|

Two days ago I photographed something I had never seen or documented when I stopped to take photos of a Uinta Ground Squirrel and it started eating a big, fat earthworm.

Foraging Semipalmated Plover in Florida

By Mia McPherson|2021-10-29T05:30:07-05:00January 28th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Semipalmated Plovers|Tags: adult, beach, Charadrius semipalmatus, coast, coastal, eating, feeding, foraging, Gulf of Mexico, marine worm, plover, plovers, sand, Semipalmated Plover, shorebirds, summer, tugging, wet|

Among my favorite plovers to photograph when I lived in Florida were Semipalmated Plovers, I only saw them during their nonbreeding season where they spent time along the Gulf coast.