Golden-mantled ground squirrel on a rock, Yellowstone National Park

Sheepeater Cliff, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Raising the Alarm

We’d stopped at Sheepeater Cliff for lunch at the picnic tables, and I photographed this golden-mantled ground squirrel from a distance while we ate. That was going to be the whole of it.

Then in the next clearing over I noticed a fox working the edge of the picnic area while another family finished their meal — not remotely shy, plainly hoping somebody would be careless. I got a few frames of him before he slipped into the bushes.

He came back out on top of the basalt columns, and the squirrel objected in the strongest possible terms. It climbed onto a large rock, stood up to its full height and started barking at him, and it was so completely locked onto that fox that I was able to walk up parallel to it, lie down on the rock and shoot from about twelve feet. I don’t think it was a habituated animal. I think it had bigger problems.

The markings are what I’d wanted from the beginning — that golden throat and sleeves against lichen-covered basalt — and the expression I got for free.

Nikon Z 7II · Nikkor 24-120mm · 120mm · f/4 · 1/160 sec · ISO 64

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