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Uinta Ground Squirrels Eating Earthworms

By Mia McPherson|April 26th, 2020|Categories: Summit County, Uinta Ground Squirrels, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: break, canyon, chewing, chowing down, devouring, earthworm, earthworms, eating, grasses, ground, ground squirrel, ground squirrels, meal, mountains, mouth, mud, muddy, munching, nibbling, rain, spring, squirrel, squirrels, stuffing, tongue, tugging, Uinta Ground Squirrel, Urocitellus armatus, wet, worm, worms, wrestling|

Two days ago I photographed something I had never seen or documented when I stopped to take photos of a Uinta Ground Squirrel and it started eating a big, fat earthworm.