Death Defying
A picture from Yellowstone in the summer of 2004, I’m playing around with Adobe Lightroom and am using that trip to both test the program and to re-edit some pictures.
This chipmunk was perched 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.
I suspect this is a yellow-pine chipmunk given that it was eating the seeds of the tree, but I don’t know for sure.
Tags: chipmunk, mammals, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park