{"id":56273,"date":"2019-02-22T05:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=56273"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:20:30","slug":"white-tailed-antelope-squirrel-resting-on-a-boulder-in-wayne-county-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/02\/22\/white-tailed-antelope-squirrel-resting-on-a-boulder-in-wayne-county-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"White-tailed Antelope Squirrel Resting On A Boulder In Wayne County, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"White-tailedWhite-tailed Antelope Squirrel resting on a boulder – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

While I am out looking for birds to photograph I like to take other photos of the wildlife I see on my journeys and some of my favorites are the different species of squirrels I see here in Utah, Idaho and Montana.<\/p>\n

My portfolio though is lacking my “dream” images of White-tailed Antelope Squirrels because I don’t see them all that often and when I do they generally aren’t close to me.<\/p>\n

I photographed this White-tailed Antelope Squirrel<\/span><\/a> in 2016 near Torrey in Wayne County, Utah, the squirrel was resting on a boulder a couple hundred yards away from where I was camping.<\/p>\n

While I wish I could have gotten closer to the squirrel but that just wasn’t possible since I was photographing from inside of a vehicle and other boulders next to the road prevented any movement in the squirrel’s direction.<\/p>\n

I liked to pose of the squirrel, the textures of the boulder, the background colors and the great eye contact I had with the squirrel.<\/p>\n

I’ve photographed these antelope squirrels closer to home in the West Desert and it might improve my chances of photographing this species and getting my “dream” photos of them if I spent time in that general area more often than I do. I’ll be making a note to self to do just that.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I photographed this White-tailed Antelope Squirrel in 2016 near Torrey in Wayne County, Utah, the squirrel was resting on a boulder a couple hundred yards away from where I was camping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171052,"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":[26,2486,6971,99],"tags":[6972,4138,4098,4852,1631,5071,4156,3826,3827,604,373],"class_list":["post-56273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utah","category-wayne-county","category-white-tailed-antelope-squirrels","category-wildlife","tag-ammospermophilus-leucurus","tag-boulder","tag-desert","tag-diurnal","tag-ground-squirrel","tag-ground-squirrels","tag-resting","tag-squirrel","tag-squirrels","tag-white-tailed-antelope-squirrel","tag-winter"],"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