The most common primary consumers include small rodents such as shrews, mice, and voles as well as larger animals such as the black-tailed dear. Others include squirrels, chipmunks and seed eating birds. The most common secondary consumers include frogs, weasels, badgers, coyotes, raccoons, owls, foxes, and sometimes beavers. The tertiary consumers include bears, wolves, lynxes, and cougars.