During our May trip to Yellowstone National Park, we saw an abundance of bears. Even folks who visit the park regularly in the spring were amazed by the numbers of bears out and about. This grizzly sow was photographed at the Butte Lake Overlook….rangers say she frequents the area to avoid being bullied by the [...]
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Red Dogs
One reason that we elected to visit Yellowstone in the May was the appeal of seeing the “Yellowstone Babies”…..red dogs (bison calves), elk calves, bear cubs, Bighorn sheep kids, and scores of other wildlife offspring are visible in the park during late spring and early summer. Of course, you wouldn’t have known from the weather [...]
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One of the most memorable moments of our Yellowstone trip was the Nez Perce wolf spotting, which I detailed in a previous post. During that same shoot, we had a Bison encounter which to this day remains one of the trip highlights. As we staked out an elk carcass, waiting for one of the black [...]
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One of the subjects that we were able to photograph during our Yellowstone visit was the secretive Pine Martin. He only made an appearance for a few seconds, but I was able to use center point focus to lock on and fired a dozen or so shots. Although I usually keep my camera set on [...]
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We returned home yesterday after a 10 day visit to Yellowstone National Park. Six of those days were spent with Joe & Mary Ann McDonald photographing wildlife and scenics. Even though the weather was unseasonably warm (with highs of 70-80 degrees each day), we did manage to locate some wildlife. The header of this page [...]
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