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King of the Mountain

By James Braswell | Published December 29, 2021

Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: Colorado, marmot, Mount Evans
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Marmotmania

By James Braswell | Published August 27, 2018

Today, I’m featuring a few more images of an adult Hoary Marmot that I found around the Lunch Creek (Glacier NP, Montana) parking area. These furry mammals are fun to watch! Here are a few of my favorite images of this single adult marmot: And if you missed last Friday’s “Fun Friday” post of this […]

Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: behavior, Blog, cute, Glacier NP, mammals, marmot, Montana, National Park, National Park, nature, nature photography, summer, travel
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Fun Friday: Where’s My Readers?

By James Braswell | Published August 24, 2018

Today’s “Fun Friday” post comes from the Lunch Creek area of Glacier National Park (Montana) during my recent trip. I pulled over at the Lunch Creek parking area so I could check out and photograph the wildflowers and waterfall there. Once I exited the car and headed to the waterfall, I noticed this mature Hoary […]

Posted in Fun Friday Post, Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: behavior, Blog, cute, Glacier NP, mammals, marmot, Montana, National Park, National Park, nature, nature photography, summer, travel
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Fun Friday: Enjoying Life & Playing Hard!

By James Braswell | Published September 12, 2014

Today’s Fun Friday post comes from my visit to Mount Evans, Colorado, where I ran into a large family of Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota flaviventris). One attending adult and six babies were all in a small rocky area, just off the Mount Evans Highway. I’ll share some “family portraits” in a future post, but today’s post […]

Posted in Fun Friday Post, Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: behavior, Blog, Colorado, cute, mammals, marmot, Mount Evans, nature, nature photography, summer, travel
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Yellow-bellied Marmots

By James Braswell | Published September 4, 2014

While on Mount Evans (Colorado) this past July, I had several nice outings with the Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Here are a few of my favorite images: The bottom 3 closeup images were made as Momma Marmot ran to play under my car … while I was busy photographing the 6 baby marmots nearby (I’ll […]

Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Travel Photography | Tags: behavior, Blog, Colorado, cute, mammals, marmot, Mount Evans, nature, nature photography, summer, travel
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Fun Friday: Talk About a Burrow!

By James Braswell | Published July 18, 2014

While photographing Mountain Goats in the rocky landscape of Glacier NP, an amusing Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata) ran about the snow slope and ended up at his “burrow”, which was actually a hole he had dug into the deep snow, just to get to his burrow! Glacier NP received a heavy snowstorm in late June, […]