These photos are from the 23rd. I’m running behind in my posting but bear with me-fun comes first. :^)
The wolf was a nice find although the photo isn’t much. It was shot with a 300mm Nikkor lens with a 1.7 TC attached to my D2x. It is heavily cropped as he was at least a half a mile away. Probably more.
On the other hand, the elk were right on top of us. At one point, one of them was too close to shoot as he more than filled the frame.
The horn is from outside the park in the Beartooth Range. The range probably gets its name from this peak. Horns are formed by three glaciers backing up a mountain as the ice mass increases and “plucks” stone from it. As it forms three cirques in this manner, a horn is left when the glaciers retreats. The Matterhorn in the Alps is probably the best known of the horns.
The other rounded snow covered mountain is just to show the amount of snow in the high country. We have gone over a pass several times that still has eight feet of snow on the north side.
The moose was shot late in the evening and refused to raise his head very often or move away from the grasses on which he was feeding. It too is a poor shot, but hey, it is a moose.
The mountain sheep, three of them, were seen on our way down from Mammoth Springs. They were running across the face of a cliff most of us would find impossible to cling to.
The cute one is not a goat. That’s my beautiful daughter.
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