Friday, June 5, 2015

Yesterday, after laundry and the shower, I took some photos of the lower falls:

Then it was up to Gardiner to update the blog, with several stops along the way.

I stopped at the falcon nest and spent about an hour talking to a woman from Chicago about scopes and cameras and such. I also got this picture through the scope:

Then there was a bear jam at Elk Creek. It was the same cinnamon bear from Tuesday, so I didn't stop:

A little further on, the traffic was stopped for a wrecker getting a car. They had half the road blocked, so we had to wait. I was next to a turnout and when I looked over, I saw this:

So I pulled over, and took some pictures.

Coming back from Gardiner, near Phantom Lake was an elk:

Not a bad day.

Today was wolves, bears and moose.

Up early again and out to the Lamar Valley. On the way I passed a black bear nosing in the weeds. This is how you mostly see bears:

With their nose in the ground.

Out at the east end of the Lamar Valley, after not seeing anything for a while, 3 wolves were spotted moving east. There was a pandemonium of people and cars and when it all settled down, they were spread over about ½ mile of the road:

I did manage to get one sort of OK photo of a yearling wolf:

There was also a moose spotted in the trees, completely ignoring all the activity on the road. After lunch I went to Gardiner for some stuff and saw this moose on the way back:

Where the bear jam was yesterday.

After dinner, it was back out to Lamar to wait. The woman from Chicago showed up along with a couple I met this morning and we stood around telling stories. After they left, two wolves were seen in the growing darkness heading towards the den.