The Hot Seat
How often do you see a squirrel in a lava flow? Taken near the trailhead of the Trail of Molten Land at the Lava Lands Visitor Center at Newberry National Volcanic Monument in Bend, Oregon.
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The Hot Seat
How often do you see a squirrel in a lava flow? Taken near the trailhead of the Trail of Molten Land at the Lava Lands Visitor Center at Newberry National Volcanic Monument in Bend, Oregon.
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Squirrel's Eye View
I met this squirrel on the hike up to Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone National Park. He stayed mostly out-of-sight over the edge of the trail, so I knelt down onto the path to get a squirrel's-eye view when he finally did pop up for an instant to check me out. I wanted him to be mostly hidden by the ridge to emphasize that he was coming out of hiding. I also wanted his head to be fully in the clear and was fortunate that he came up to the right of the taller rock to the left, which I could use as a counter-balance in the frame.
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For the pictures below, I’m not sure if these are regular or Cascade species of golden-mantled ground squirrels, I’m still working on the species identification. But I do know that they are golden-mantled ground squirrels of some sort ;)
