This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
Here’s a photo of “Jam,” a female grizzly, in the Lake Butte Overlook area of Yellowstone. Her mother is called “Raspberry.” Raspberry has a new cub this year. I don’t know if the public has given her new cub a name.
This is what it looked like as I headed toward the Lamar Valley yesterday. That’s a road grader plowing the way. Its top speed seemed to be about 10 MPH and at a spot short of Tower the driver got out and waved us around him. I don’t know what happened to the trucks that usually do the plowing. It looks like 6 inches or more fell here.
These conditions were no problem for animals like this cow bison. However, I’m not so sure about animals born yesterday. The snow was that wet, heavy type. I wouldn’t want to be a baby elk born yesterday or the night before.
This bull elk looks healthy and a little snow is probably no big deal to him although his winter coat would have served him better than his summer coat. This photo was taken in the afternoon and most of the snow had melted by then.
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.
