Yellowstone Coyote - Prärievarg

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Yellowstone Coyote - Prärievarg
© NF Photos 171004

This one came very close, even passed through our group of people and cars. There was two of them.

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Yellowstone Bighorn - Tjockhornsfår

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Bighorn - Tjockhornsfår
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I´m not sure if these were considered wild animals. They were in what seemed to be a fenced area. Or, maybe just shielded from the road.

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Yellowstone Chipmunk

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Yellowstone Chipmunk
© NF Photos 170928-1004

Most of the time they tried to snatch our food but not in these images. I was surprised to see two of them in the cold, snowy mountains.

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Yellowstone Bears, grizzly and brown

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Grizzly
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Grizzly bear Thomas
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Brown bear
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The bears we met on our trip. And, yes, we were quite close to them. But they did not seem to care about us or be disturbed. Still there were Rangers that watched over us so we should not be stupid.
One of the grizzly bears were named Thomas. The Rangers named them.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

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Mule deer- Åsnehjort

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Mule deer
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Mule deer we met in Grand Teton NP. It is obvious they have to watch out for pedestrians and bycyclists. And, as our roedeers, they seem to like gardens.


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Yellowstone 170928-29 Pronghorn - Gaffelantilop

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Pronghorn - Gaffelantilop
© NF Photos 170928-29 Elk Ranch Flats, Grand Teton NP

This was the only place we did see the Pronghorns. They did not seem to run as freely as the bison did. But such a beautiful deer/antelope.

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Yellowstone 170928 First encounter with Bison / Buffalo

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First encounter with Bison / Buffalo
© NF Photos 170928 Elk Ranch Flats, Teton NP

Our first encounters with the Bison herd was after the sunrise at Teton Range. Our cameras already warmed up. And that was necessary as it was a frosty morning. We first saw the bison's on a small dirt road not far from the main road. Their tops was covered with frost. Then we went to the Teton side of the main road and just then the herd was moving over the road and came right at me as I stood at a tree at the edge of the road. And the fence was about 5 m from me. The herd run back and forth to get over the fence. They have done that many times before, I can tell, as the fence was broken both here and there. It was a running frenzy and several times one animal was to close to me. I had to back off and no shots taken as they were too close then. The main problem for the herd was the young ones. They had trouble finding a place where to cross. I saw one finally crawling under the fence.

A little later we found them again grazing peacefully close to a farmhouse.  😄

Lots of adrenalin that morning. Something I will never forget.


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Yellowstone 171003 Cody - Lamar Valley - Mammot Hot Springs - Gardiner

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This day started early as usual. Packed and ready to leave at 7.45. We go north from Cody to The Northeast entrance and then west to Mammoth Hot Springs and Gardiner where we stay the night.
During the ride out of Cody I tried to capture the "famous" face mountain. Can you see the face?

Now was the place where we started to see cows instead of bison. Quite weird, but they were far off and no reason to take shots from the car. 

We took Wyoming Highway 296 also know as "Chief Joseph Scenic Byway", "Dead Indian Hill" and "Sunlight Bridge" (one of the highest bridges in the US).
Nez Perce tribe in Yellowstone
I´m not that person that wants to be reminded of how evil people can be so, instead of sharing the history I noticed a chipmunk at this high altitude with snow,  still trying to get food out of people. Sadly we did not bring anything for it as we did not expect to see one. :)

Looking down from the Sunlight bridge

A cold chipmunk 

Lots of beautiful, scenic, views along the road 296

We made a stop in Cook City and it´s museum. They did have a sense of good humour. :) "Coolest small town in America". Quite nice from what I could see in that short amount of time.

And then we were going back into the park again. Heading for Lamar Valley. And picnic lunch. We had a fox as lunch guest and it was the first time I tasted jack fruit. It was tasty.  Think it suited the plate too.



Usually when you see critters and birds the birds are Cattle egrets. But here they were Starlings. Lots of them.

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Last, but not least, Mammoth Hot Springs.
In Mammoth the Wapiti Elk are "walking in the park" or rather, live in the traffic roundabouts.

And the Hot springs are Hot. And so many I had no chance to see them all in the amount of time we were given for the place.

Then we went to Gardiner at the border between Wyoming and Montana and our new lodge. When settled in the room we had some time to edit images for tomorrow. Then we
 met at a restaurant for dinner. When back at the motel I took a shower, uploaded the images and prepared for the last day in Yellowstone.

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