Tag: black bear

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.…
Read More

Scarface Strolls the Valley

After spending 5 days in the Tetons I felt a bit out of touch with Yellowstone this morning.  A lot went on in my absence - great wolf sightings and…
Read More

Who is afraid of the big, bad…um…sandhill crane? Black bears, apparently.

Who is afraid of the big, bad...um...sandhill crane? Black bears, apparently. Firstly, let me apologize for the quality of these images. I had no intention of doing any photography on…
Read More

Foxes, bears, bull elk and white tail

  Last night I carried my scope, no camera, out for a better view of the den area and looked and looked for pups but no go for me, once…
Read More

Do not cross a Sandhill Crane!

  Been a couple of slow days for photo ops - in fact, zero photos for two days.  The sky has been an endless blue of bright sunshine, which does…
Read More

The Big Surprise!

Yesterday I decided that my goal was to photograph a black bear in wildflowers and so I headed over to Floating Island Lake area where the bear had been the…
Read More