Animalphotography - Ground Squirrels in Spring

ground squirrels eating dandelion. Picture: Florian Glechner.

Camera used	Nikon D500
Lens used	Sigma 150-600 mm lens
Filter used	none
Exposure Time	1/250 Seconds
Aperture used	F6.3
Focal Lengh	600mm
Time	09:28 am
ISO	100

Yesterday i visited the ground squirrels the first time this year for some animal photography. I really had luck and they where so cute that i could nearly feed them with my hand. It's always nice how curious they are to new things. Unfortunately people don't pay a lot of attention to wild animals like these. I could literally hit people who feed bread or other processed food to wild animals like these ground squirrels. The problem is people don't know that they do a lot of harm to these animals.

2 Lovers sharing one dandelion. Picture Florian Glechner.

Camera used	Nikon D500
Lens used	Sigma 150-600 mm lens
Filter used	none
Exposure Time	1/200 Seconds
Aperture used	F6.3
Focal Lengh	600mm
Time	09:28 am
ISO	100

Bread and other processed food does a lot of harm to animals like squirrels, ground squirrels, ducks, birds, or nearly any other animal. The digestion of this food is not so good in animals and some of them even die because they are fed with "shit" like this.

The next thing that hit the spot was a woman who didn't have her dog on the leash and let her dog smell on the openings to the caves of the ground squirrels and didn't leash her dog even after we told her and showing her the sign wich is already mounted there everywhere to please don't let dogs run free in this area. Some of the dog owners don't understand that animals like these ground squirrels who are very seldom and have to fight against extinction.

Ground squirrel collecting dry gras for her breeding burrow. Picture: Florian Glechner.

Camera used	Nikon D500
Lens used	Sigma 150-600 mm lens
Filter used	none
Exposure Time	1/320 Seconds
Aperture used	F6.3
Focal Lengh	600mm
Time	10:02 am
ISO	100

What is this photographer doing here? Picture: Florian Glechner.

Camera used	Nikon D500
Lens used	Sigma 150-600 mm lens
Filter used	none
Exposure Time	1/250 Seconds
Aperture used	F6.3
Focal Lengh	600mm
Time	10:10 am
ISO	100