spermophilus armatus
Lamar Valley – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 – 10:30 am
As we drove through Lamar Valley at Yellowstone, looking for any animals we could see (but especially for wolves), we saw several ground squirrels run across the road in front of the car. On one of the occasions when we pulled over, my wife said there was one in the grass just below here car window. I got out to try for a photo, but they (there were at least two in the immediate area) kept mostly hidden, with just a glimpse now and again as they dashed between clumps of vegetation. That is until one climbed up in a sage bush about 20 feet away and posed for me.
