Tag: birds

The Amazing World of Sax-Zim Bog

The Wary Mink I’m a die hard wolf/predator photographer who ventures out into the wilds of Yellowstone nearly every day of the year, to document the lives of the wild…
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Back and Forth – between Yellowstone and Teton

My camping season got off to a rough start this year, with clogged pipes at home forcing me to a campground before things were ready, and then a landlord arriving…
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Mollies Went Home

First thing this morning we all lined up along Lamar Valley and watched the sixteen wolf, Mollies pack, procession as they went from west to east and kept on going…
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The Last of the Tetons for a While

As I’ve mentioned before the main reason we went to the Tetons recently was to film foxes and we were lucky enough to do that. But we also found some…
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A Sandhill Crane Family Versus a Black Bear

Two years ago we spent a lot of time watching a pair of sandhill cranes nesting and raising their babies at Floating Island Lake on the north side of Yellowstone.…
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Change

I’ve mentioned this before but for those who don’t know, we have a house in southeast Texas where we have lived for 35 years. Now we spend a couple of…
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Our First Day This Year in Hayden Valley

We got up and out so we could be at the gate leading into Hayden Valley when it opened at 8:00 this morning. It was really fun running into friends…
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Another day in the Tetons

  I return to Grand Teton National park time and time again, to drink in the magnificent beauty of the Teton mountain range and listen to the sound of the…
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Paradise Occasion

Rarely, during the past 2.5 years that I have lived in Gardiner, MT, have I taken photos in Paradise Valley, just north of Yellowstone.  In fact, despite the fact that…
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Swan Lake Swans

I love swans. They are so graceful and beautiful. We used to be able to find a number of pairs of swans in Yellowstone but over the years their numbers…
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Broad-tailed Hummingbirds

One of our favorite places to hangout or eat a good dinner with wine when we are in the Tetons is Doran’s. Doran’s is very close to the Snake River…
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William’s Sapsuckers

It’s wintertime and I am in Texas missing Yellowstone. We will be back there in April but in the mean time I will have to console myself with memories of…
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Sandhill Cranes Migrate the Same Way We Do

We spent a month at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, in part of October and November of this year on our way home from Yellowstone. Today I…
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Sandhills Cranes in Yellowstone – Part 3 – Winter

The encounter between the black bear and the sandhills I told you about yesterday happened on July 13th, just after the second baby hatched. The sandhill family continued to spend…
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The Owl vs the Robin

Owl v Robin Yellowstone has continuously delivered my favourite wildlife sightings and the summer of 2013 was no exception. For several weeks, Jill and I had the honour and opportunity…
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