Of course I had to take at least one photo of the many visitors to my bird feeder during the snow and ice storm of 2021. This male dark-eyed junco was the most willing subject. I suspect he was playing lookout.
While hiking the Skyline Trail in Mount Rainier National Park we came across multiple chipmunks! This little guy was a bit off the trail, just enough so I could get a good photo with my zoom lens and he wouldn’t dart away. I don’t like feeding wildlife for the sake of getting a photo, yet these little chipmunks were still willing to hang around and watch us as we walked by. They were so cute as they darted across the top of the snow!
Instead of going to the right from Paradise, we started the Skyline Trail to the left. That took us to the foot of Mount Rainier and made for a delightful ending at Myrtle Falls. For this photo I used about a 1/3 of a second shutter lag and let nature do the rest.
This was a difficult peak to identify! Neighboring the Tatoosh Range, Stevens Peak is the leftmost ridge of the line of mountains viewable from the Skyline Trail in Mount Rainier National Park.
