{"id":118776,"date":"2023-12-06T03:53:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=118776"},"modified":"2023-12-06T03:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:53:48","slug":"utah-fox-squirrel-close-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/12\/06\/utah-fox-squirrel-close-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Fox Squirrel Close Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t have to travel far to take close-up photos of this Fox Squirrel. In fact, I photographed the squirrel when I got home from checking out my local pond.<\/p>\n

\"FoxFox Squirrel close up in Utah \u2013 Nikon D500, handheld, f7.1, 1\/4000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was driving up the street, I saw two Fox Squirrels in a tree next to the road, but they quickly hid from me. I walked around my Jeep to get my camera from the front passenger seat and started to head towards the garage when I saw this squirrel climbing down the tree trunk.<\/p>\n

\"FoxFox Squirrel close up in Salt Lake County \u2013 Nikon D500, handheld, f7.1, 1\/4000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

With no time to set up my tripod, which was in the back of my vehicle, I decided I would just handhold my heavy gear to take photos of the squirrel. While hand holding over 10 pounds of gear, I leaned against the back of my Jeep and focused on the face of the squirrel. I was so close; all I could do was take close-up portraits and hope I’d get a few sharp images.<\/p>\n

The squirrel gave me one second, I fired off ten photos in a burst.<\/p>\n

\"FoxFox Squirrel portrait at home in Utah \u2013 Nikon D500, handheld, f7.1, 1\/4000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

To my delight, every one of the Fox Squirrel<\/span><\/a> photos I took was sharply in focus.<\/p>\n

The background of these images might look like a snowy setting. There actually wasn’t any snow on the ground; the white in the background is the siding of a home a distance down the street.<\/p>\n

I was definitely thrilled to take these close up squirrel photos at home.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Fox Squirrel photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t have to travel far to take close-up photos of this Fox Squirrel. In fact, I photographed the squirrel when I got home from checking out my local pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14127,709,26],"tags":[4004,970,4142,4620,14129,10880,1632,6853,4046,14128,3826,3827,4427,14132,14133,12949,8018],"class_list":["post-118776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-squirrels","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-autumn","tag-close-up","tag-fall","tag-fox-squirrel","tag-home","tag-mammals","tag-nonnative","tag-portrait","tag-sciurus-niger","tag-squirrel","tag-squirrels","tag-tree","tag-tree-squirrel","tag-tree-squirrels","tag-trunk","tag-urban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t