[LRflex] Re: IMG: critters in Sierra County

Herr Herr wrote:
Yesterday I spent a day out of Sacramento's 106-degree (F) heat (41 degrees C) in the relative cool of Sierra County, north of Truckee and Lake Tahoe. I traveled a dirt road where I'd seen Mountain Bluebirds two weeks earlier and found: 

Least Chipmunk (I'm pretty sure it's Least)

http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/rodents/lech00.jpg

Mountain Chickadee:

http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/paridae/moch02.jpg
http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/paridae/moch03.jpg

and Williamson's Sapsuckers:

http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/wisa00.jpg
http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/wisa01.jpg
All photos: R8/DMR, 560mm f/6.8, shoulder stock & monopod. All comments welcome. 



Glad you could avoid at least some of the 41 degree heat!
I was through Sacramento, in July of 1991, and you were having a "heat wave", at a modest 47 (that's 117F!) degrees, in your fair town. (I've seen -47C, as well, and I don't much care for either one!)
All excellent shots, as always... but if I had to choose, it would be the Chipmunk. He's really cute ... and beautifully captured. 

Thanks, as always, for sharing your "finds".

Cheers!
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David Young
Logan Lake, BC

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