Sunday June 3 Yellowstone

Sunday June 3

It was just Rick and I today and we made our way to Quad Mom’s haunts. She was way off in the distance so we worked our way to a group that was perched on top of a hill. Apparently, a wolf pack had made a kill the night before and we missed them feeding. But we did get one gray wolf walking off into the woods; not a great pic, though. I do not know which pack this was; could be Blacktail or Quadrant but I was told there was a total of five spotted that morning. This was our second wolf in three days.

Since it began to rain, we packed our gear and headed towards tower to try to get a glimpse of the black bear mom with two cubs at Tower. A glimpse is pretty much all we got as she herded her kids up a tree, not to be seen again, as she grazed behind thick brush. This is all I got of one of the cubs and mom. I really hope we get to spend some time with this family again with better photographing conditions.

So we decide to visit Hayden Valley and see what’s going on there and we couldn’t believe it, but another gray wolf from the Canyon Pack was just a couple hundred yards out. There are eight members of the Canyon Pack. We took photographs of our third wolf in as many days. We were pretty excited!

On our way through the park, just after Floating Island, I spot a group of tourists watching a small black bear going behind some sage. Just around the corner is a larger group of people and there is a big black bear in a tree! We stop and just after setting up the bear comes down the tree and just below us. We snap off a couple of shots before being told to move. We hang around some more and get to spend time with the b lack bear. Apparently, this bear was scared up the tree by the other black bear. We were 10 minutes to late. That is one thing about the park, you can miss an entire episode or incident by mere minutes.

Later in the evening, we spotted a coyote mousing, but she didn’t hang around long enough for us to catch her. She was fat though, so we suspect she will be having kids soon. Maybe tomorrow we will be lucky enough to see the dad!