This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
The snow that fell yesterday was sticking when it landed on vegetation, but not on the roads or animals. This coyote was probably hoping it would either get colder or warmer. It looks soaked. The temperature ranged between 30 and 35 degrees. It’s about the same today. There was about four inches of snow on my car this morning and it was still snowing. Fortunately, it’s let up, at least for now.
This young grizzly is the same individual I photographed yesterday. It was looking for food by overturning rocks and turning over clumps of dirt. While what it was finding will keep this bear going, it would really benefit by finding some meat. It’s eyes don’t look sad anymore. It’s looking at me. Hmmm.
It has been raining and snowing for the past few days. Today it snowed lightly almost all day in the park and caused me some focusing problems. The snow stuck to vegetation, but melted quickly when it hit dirt and asphalt. The forecast is for more of the same.
This is the only grizzly so far that has been close enough to photograph on this trip to Yellowstone. It’s a young bear and when I look at its eyes it seems sad.
Those aren’t insects flying around the bear. It’s snow. We’ve had rain, hail and snow the past couple of days. That’s not unusual this time of year.
There’s no time to cull photos. This is the first one I saw that looked OK.
When people think of the wildlife in Yellowstone they think of wolves, bears, especially grizzlies, and elk. But there are lots of other critters. You can probably think of many others, but you may not put the sandhill crane on your list. Yet there are quite a few to be seen there. This crane was with a couple of others near Blacktail Pond. One other large bird I’m used to seeing here is the trumpeter swan. However, I haven’t seen any this trip and don’t recall if I saw any in my other recent trips.
