[Leica] IMG: Yellow-bellied Marmot

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Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp@msn.com> wrote:

>Looks like you're getting the hang of this wildlife photography thing :) 

Thanks all for your comments on this photo.  The marmots can be a bit of a 
pest when they burrow under buildings, and the entire camp where I was 
staying had a load of marmot turds on nearly every exterior horizontal 
surface.  One person was employed for several days power-washing the 
exteriors, mostly to get rid of the marmot crap.

Fortunately the Yellow-bellied Marmot tends to burrow under sheltering 
stones or logs rather than on open ground so horse injuries due to stepping 
in marmot burrows are less a problem than in Ground Hog/Woodchuck or Prairie 
Dog habitat.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com