Early this morning at about 7:30 AM with temperatures at freezing this photo is at the Madison River about 5 miles into the park.
A really good picture of an elk with a big rack. This elk was about 3 miles after the first picture. Good sighting early in the morning — sometimes it is the best time to see the animals.
It was about 40 degrees this morning when we ventured out on a trail, I’m so glad I picked up a pair of gloves as I had forgotten mine at home. It was a really pretty trail by some of the boiling mud pools and steaming water areas.
A large buffalo — I don’t think the people in this car were used to buffalo, most people realize that if you keep moving your car slowly the buffalo will move away from you and go off the road or you just wait it out and it will eventually get off of the road — of course if you move your car you have to do this very carefully – these people thought it was going to attack their car and started to back up and kept on doing so even after we went by in the other lane.
a deer relaxing under a trampoline in the small town of Gardiner at the north entrance to the park — there were about 4 deer in this yard. Later we saw two groupings of elk in the town by a park of some sort.
A “wandering garter snake” I spotted this one while Mike was taking pictures and called him over, I got out my wildlife book to figure out what kind he was. He was very skinny and actually smaller than the picture looks.
Another coyote we saw today
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