{"id":40757,"date":"2016-08-02T04:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=40757"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:22:01","slug":"wasatch-mountain-range-chipmunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/08\/02\/wasatch-mountain-range-chipmunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasatch Mountain Range Chipmunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LeastLeast Chipmunk in the Wasatch Mountains – Nikon D810, f8, 1\/1250, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I was able to photograph several chipmunks high in the Wasatch Mountains yesterday while traveling the Sky Line Drive by starting in Bountiful Canyon<\/span><\/a> and coming back down into the Salt Lake Valley via Farmington Canyon.<\/p>\n

It seemed like every where I looked I saw little chipmunks scurrying around on the ground and climbing in the scrub oaks that dot the western side of the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n

I adore chipmunks and have since I was a child and I will take photographs of them whenever I have the the opportunity. I was photographing some Least Chipmunks near the top of one of the summits that were feeding in some low shrubs when this one showed up on a fence rail out in the open. It only stayed still for a few frames then ran off to chase another nearby chipmunk.<\/p>\n

I should have taken off my teleconverter when I was photographing this chipmunk and the others because the chipmunks showed up just a touch too close even though I was using FX Mode (full frame) and I had trouble getting enough depth of field to get the chippys all in focus and without clipping some body part.<\/p>\n

I had to settle for an out of focus tail here. Oh well, it was wonderful to feel cooler at the higher elevations for the morning.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

It seemed like every where I looked I saw little chipmunks scurrying around on the ground and climbing in the scrub oaks that dot the western side of the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[1022,5922,1834,5219,26,773],"tags":[4540,4284,4383,5352,4040,3830,834,5351,2264,2315,8592],"class_list":["post-40757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-davis-county-utah","category-least-chipmunks","category-sky-line-drive","category-uinta-wasatch-cache-national-forest","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-alert","tag-chase","tag-chipmunk","tag-chipmunks","tag-feeding","tag-fence","tag-fence-rail","tag-least-chipmunk","tag-tamias-minimus","tag-summer-3","tag-summit"],"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