It's Groundhog Day, so I'm going to dig up a few photos of marmots, relatives of groundhogs. I hear that Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow and predicted six more weeks of winter, which would be great for those of us in California and Nevada, since we've only had a few days of winter so far!
This is a yellow-bellied Marmot along the Tioga Pass road in Yosemite National Park. He's hoping for a handout. I captured this during a G+/Panoramio Yosemite Photowalk I organized in May 2012. It was fun to run around and photograph Yosemite with 75-100 other G+ photographers in the park for four days!
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Happy Groundhog Day!
It’s Groundhog Day, so I’m going to dig up a few photos of marmots, relatives of groundhogs. I hear that Punxsutawney Phil came out of his burrow and predicted six more weeks of winter, which would be great for those of us in California and Nevada, since we’ve only had a few days of winter so far!
This is a yellow-bellied Marmot along the Tioga Pass road in Yosemite National Park. He’s hoping for a handout. I captured this during a G+/Panoramio Yosemite Photowalk I organized in May 2012. It was fun to run around and photograph Yosemite with 75-100 other G+ photographers in the park for four days!
#GroundhogDay #wildlife #yosemitenationalpark
www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com
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Great capture! So cute 🙂
It almost looks like he knew you wanted him to pose for him. Nice photo.
Super
cute photo
Phil is probably right, unfortunately.
what comes to my mind:
one of my all time fav movies with bill murray … should watch it again!
Hey, Phil 🙂
That was such a fun day!! 🙂
Superb !
Lovely image! Love marmots!
wonderful shot
Wonderful image. Thanks +Jeff Sullivan. It has actually been raining here all morning. We need more of this.
He hoped that I wanted to feed him +Dionne Siegrist.
They're cute and can be friendly +Shelly Gunderson, but one climbed up into my vehicle's engine and hitched a ride 70 miles, another chewed up the hand grip to one of my hiking poles to get the salt, and they're often trying to sneak up to any pack I've set down to see what they can find. They're mischievous little critters.
Oh my, I guess! I had no idea they would do something like that. Wow.
I've placed a couple more marmot photos in a Groundhog Day album here on G+:
https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/5976217076586181121
Nice friend, +Jeff Sullivan !!!!!
Somewhere in my film boxes is a slide of a ground squirrel posing for me on a decomposing granite rock at Point Lobos, maybe 33-5 years ago. He/she was rolling and stretching in the granite sand…being very photogenic. When I didn't pay up with appropriate "payment" of any sort of food, they stopped, sat up, gave me a squirrel finger and a disgusted look far bigger in life than they were, and scampered away.
Somewhere, I have those cute marmots at Olmstead…in a slide box.
Everyone east of the Rockies is getting "Winter" and they'd love it if it stopped. They've spent more time in a virtual freezer that they've ever wanted. (I think their home freezer was warmer than the air outside the front door!)
I'm sure they're envious of our "springtime in winter" weather. Maybe we can swap the rain/snow with them for warmer weather?
To make it worse, we're having a multitude of nice soft-white blossoming trees in the Central Valley and Bay Area…while they still have "white" as a cold ground cover that only bends and breaks trees if it gets deep enough on the branches.