We woke to very low lying clouds and rain. It didn’t look promising. As were loading up the car the sun broke out. That wasn’t to last… We head for Tower. Our bear luck of the day before had seemingly evaporated, but that’s the only thing that had, though we did see a black bear [...]
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Today was something of a banner day. Our first sighting was three wolves, two light grey and a dark grey, about 1 mile west of the Blacktail Road road entrance. Next we saw a black colored black bear below Rainy Lake, another above Rainy Lake and yet another on the hill across (to the north) [...]
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We saw a black colored black bear at Rainy Lake, another at Calcite Springs, and another at the Yellowstone Picnic Area as well as a cinnamon colored black bear at Calcite Springs. We saw two bull moose in the Petrified Tree area No real stories… [...]
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Getting higher… The cooler weather has slowed the contribution of runoff to the high levels of our rivers and streams but rain and new snow are now making their contributions. The Missoulian reports: Rain, snow expected through weekend By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian Pull out your long underwear and your raincoat: Memorial Day weekend [...]
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Too bad I didn’t know how rare such a sighting was, or I’d have taken photos (it was too far up in the trees for a quality photo but I could have gotten a documentary photo if I’d known it would be of value) and recordings of the vocalizations. If the Montana rare birds record [...]
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Yesterday I enjoyed a golden day. Along with my mom, dad and son, I made my second trip over Red Sleep Mountain at the National Bison Range of the year (the road opened last weekend). It’s amazing how much a place changes in a week during the spring. Last week there were yellow bells and [...]
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This image represents two firsts for me: first-of-year female calliope hummingbird seen in my yard (the males have been here a few weeks) and the first time I’ve been able to get any photo capture of a hummingbird. It’s far from being a great hummingbird photo, but it is, nonetheless, my first, and given that [...]
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I never thought I’d find myself doing the blog thing. This is an experiment…
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