Birds & Squirrel Type Creatures~

After this post, one more to go and I shall truly finally be finished with our vacation journey images taken last month in the Dakotas and Colorado.  With this post, I must cram in a few of like type little creatures including  Alberts Squirrel with the larger ear tuffs, Least Chipmunk with stripes on it's face, a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel without any stripes on it's face, and a Chickaree/Pine Squirrel, the smallest of the tree squirrels that barks loud enough to scare a full grown German Shepherd into thinking it is something much larger;)  Also in this post was my first ever sighting of the beautiful Clark's Nutcracker as well as the little Mountain Chickadee~