The prairie dog behind our house was chattering this morning. My wife has named him Stanley. #santafe #newmexico #prairiedog

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: #BryceCanyon in #Utah isn’t actually a #canyon – it’s a series of natural amphitheaters holding the world’s largest collection of #hoodoos, rock spires up to 60m tall that began forming 50 million years ago. 🏜️

The #park sits at 2,400m elevation, hosts #endangered species like the Utah #prairiedog and #California #condor, and became an International Dark Sky Park in 2019. 🌌

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/bryce-canyon-utah

#geology #nationalparks #erosion #fossils #darksky #wildlife #hiking #desert #paiute #nature

These 50-million-year-old giants are taller than the Statue of Liberty – and there are thousands of them | Discover Wildlife

Utah's Bryce Canyon isn’t a canyon at all, but a vast high plateau carved into numerous amphitheatres – and within these incredible rock formations there is life.

Discover Wildlife

Another pic from the #Badlands of #SouthDakota

#prairiedog

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

Looks so yummy!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #prairiedog #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Standing watch. 🌾 This prairie dog is keeping a careful eye on the surroundings from its golden lookout. There is something so charming about their alert, upright posture in the vast landscape. Such an iconic part of the plains! ✨
#Wildlife #PrairieDog #Nature

One last photo for #nationalpetday of my first Black-Tailed #prairiedog Binks. He loved to bite, but he was also surprisingly loving sometimes, too. He would nap for hours in the crook of my arm. If he was playing on the floor, and I called for him, he would come running and leap into my arms.

Binks left me 4 years ago, after fighting a staph infection off and on for over two years.

Two #PrairieDog heads, one #Burrow mound, zero drama.
Sunlit #Grassland watch duty near #Denver #Colorado.
A quick pop up, a snack pause, then back to the entrance.

Who else loves these tiny sentries?

#Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #AnimalPhotography #Mammal #PrairieLife #FieldPhotography #BurrowingMammal 2/2

Two #PrairieDog heads, one #Burrow mound, zero drama.
Sunlit #Grassland watch duty near #Denver #Colorado.
A quick pop up, a snack pause, then back to the entrance.

Who else loves these tiny sentries?

#Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #AnimalPhotography #Mammal #PrairieLife #FieldPhotography #BurrowingMammal 1/2

Nibble nibble nibble ... winter is coming for these #prairieDogs! (OK, this was July, and they're probably hibernating already, or rather chilling in their burrow)

#WhiskersWednesday + #WildlifeWednesday


#Präriehunde #Präriehund #prairieDog #SchwarzschwanzPräriehund #blackTailedPrairieDog #CynomysLudovicianus #rodent #rodents #animals #animalPhotography #Tiere #WolfcenterDörverden

Well fed prairie dogs at the Valles Caldera.

Gunnison's prairie dogs are abundant in the Valles Caldera. They have a complex social structure, with a sophisticated alarm call system, and live in interconnected burrows that have separate areas for sleeping, eating, and waste.

#wildlife #critters #rodent #prairiedog #NewMexico #JemezMountains