what animal is it?

[congiorno]

hi
i've taken this picture in august or september in yosemite ntnl park near to tenaya lake, can anyone help me with identyfying this rodent, i'm not american so even if it's a very common squirrel it doesn't help me a lot - in europe squirells are red this is the link

http://img489.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... aya5da.jpg

thanks in advance

[Hikin Mike]

Maybe a Douglas Squirrel? They are common here, but the info I saw on them shows a red-orange tint to the belly. This guy doesn't have one, so I'm not 100% sure.

[SSSdave]

That front view makes it difficult to be certain about but I'd guess a belding ground squirrel especially if it was taken at higher elevation meadows.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/w ... ml#belding

http://www.monobasinresearch.org/research/squirrels.htm

[Ratboy]

While the post leads to a site for squirrels in Washington State, it does have multiple photos of squirrels for identification.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/soc/wgr ... /index.htm

This page also lists a common wildlife located at Yosemite...happy hunting.

http://www.yosemite.national-park.com/info.htm

Speculation aside, take a gander at the information and let us all know. I agree it is tough to identify a squirrel from the front, but the one in the photo is grey (gray), and found on the west coast...

[SierraVisions]

It is a Belding Ground squirrel.

[mountaineer]

While everybody is identifying the animal, I will say that it is a nice photograph!

[SSSdave]

Was going through an old box of Kodachromes today and noticed this image I shot at Thousand Island Lake in 1981 then remembered this thread:



Really cute little bugger chewing on a piece of red stem fireweed. And I even remember thinking how unafraid she was. Amazing how our wonderful human minds can remember such distant in the past and mundane things when we simply see an old photo.

...David