Great Prismatic Spring outflow...
Nikon D90, 18-105mm
Some grizzly bears hanging out.
Nikon D90, 70-300mm
ok-cleek
Man I had a dreadful flight
Great Prismatic Spring outflow...
Nikon D90, 18-105mm
Some grizzly bears hanging out.
Nikon D90, 70-300mm
Bears are facing away.
Would have been better if you could have shouted and got them coming towards you.
Heeeeeeerrre, grizzly-grizzly-grizzly! we got some tater chips for youooo!
When I was there in the 60’s we saw many black bears begging on the roads, and no griz. It would be another decade before the Yellowstone grizzlies were recognized to be endangered, and I read on the Yellowstone site that the grizzly population of the Greater Yellowstone area has risen from about 140 in 1975 to over 600
I would think that the surrounding area would experience wandering black bears, outside their normal area, pushed out of Yellowstone habitat by the expanding grizzly population.
i think they all went to Florida!
we didn’t see any black bears… no moose, no elk, no wolves. we tried many times to find moose, and were close to seeing one, in Teton park, but were told she ducked around some trees just as we got there.
did see some bighorns, tons of bison, deer, fox, coyote, marmot, pica, weasel, squirrel, strange birds, etc.. so, not a total fail.
Moose and wolves are notoriously shy and elusive.
For moose, a silent downstream/upwind floating approach around a point that hides a bog is the only thing that has ever worked for me (canoes can be wonderfully quiet).
I spent literally months in parts of Ontario that have wolf packs, saw scat and tracks and wolf-chewed objects, but have never seen nor heard one in the wild.
Hardly anyone gets to see wild weasels. Too bad, because “wild weasel” is fun to say.
Pikas are cute and amusing.
would have loved to have seen a wolf. some of the people we met in WY, and who did Yellowstone on a different day than we did, saw some.
next time!