Chipmunks at Yellowstone

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After watching a black bear mother and her cub on Yellowstone’s Blacktail Plateau Drive, the drive held true to its name and I came across a handful of blacktail bucks making their way across a small meadow. As a small group of us watched and photographed the bucks, this little chipmunk popped up on a stump and proceeded to snack on the grass seeds from its high vantage point. It seemed a much nicer picture than the bucks, and never one to pass up a chance to photograph chipmunks, I switched lenses and crouched down low to take one of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Chipmunk eating seeds while standing on a log at Yellowstone National Park
Chipmunk eating seeds while standing on a log at Yellowstone National Park
A chipmunk eats a large seed at Yellowstone National Park
Log Lunch
A chipmunk eating on a downed tree along Yellowstone's Storm Point Nature Trail, a favorite of mine for seeing and photographing the park's little creatures.
Death Defying
A chipmunk perches in a pine tree at Storm Point in Yellowstone. The tree was hanging out high over the cliffs at the edge of Yellowstone Lake. Being scared of heights myself, I could only watch in jealous admiration at how the chipmunk lept from branch to branch as easily and carelessly as if it had only been a few inches off the ground.
A chipmunk hunts for seeds in a tree at Storm Point in Yellowstone National Park
Chipmunk eating seeds at Storm Point in Yellowstone National Park

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