Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Today was a wolf day.
I got up around 6:00 and headed out to
the Lamar Valley but wasn't seeing any sign of wolves or the watchers
until I got to Hitching Post:
There, all the wolf people were packing
their gear away and heading west, so I turned around and followed.
A few miles west at Hubbard Hill, I found a place to park and set up
the scope with a bunch of the others.
There we saw 6 wolves – 5 members of
the Lamar pack and 965M, a member of the Prospect Peak pack who seems
to be on friendly terms with the Lamars. We watched as they
continued west and then, 3 of them came down off the hills and
crossed the road. The other 3 stayed up north in the hills. I got
one decent photo of the wolf called Mottled. He's a former Prospect
that joined the Lamars after the alpha male of the Lamars was killed
in march. He seems to be afraid to cross the road and will only do
so at night.
Then, they started back east, and the
parade of cars and people moved with them. A couple of miles east, I
stopped and set up the scope and camera. As the 2 groups moved east,
they would periodically stop and howl to each other. I got a couple
of pictures. I managed to get several OK photos.
The gray one is 956.
They are grainy because it was a gray
day and I needed to set a very high ISO on the camera. These were
around ISO 10000. One of my goals on this trip is to get better
pictures, especially through the scope which these were.
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