YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - July 2012
My mom, sister and I just returned from a trip to Yellowstone. We traveled to Salt Lake City, UT and spent a couple of days and then drove north through the Grand Tetons National Park and then on to Yellowstone where we spent 4 days. We saw an amazing variety of wildlife on our travels. I took over a thousand pictures; below are a few...
This Black Bear and cub were trying to cross the road but couldn't because of all the traffic. It was actually quite sad to see the mother bear come up to the roadside to cross with her cub following along and then turn around; over and over again. Finally, a park ranger came and blocked the roadway so the bear and cub could cross, which they did. They wandered up the hill out of sight - we were so lucky to witness this.
This bear cub was wandering the fields, eating flowers as if it didn't have a care in the world. As I took pictures, I wondered where the mother bear was. She never appeared to my delight because we were quite exposed in the middle of the field!
This bunny was enjoying the warm waters at Emerald Springs in the Norris Geyser basin.
We were lucky to catch this coyote on our drive through the park one afternoon.
This elk was high up on a hill top in the Roosevelt Tower area of the park. From down below, all you could see was the tip of the horns. I was able to get high enough to take this picture, one of my favorites.
This Grizzly Bear was actually just above one of the pull off areas. We were lucky to be driving by at the exact time it was walking through. It stayed only a few minutes and then was gone.
These animals were everywhere! It is a young yellowbelly marmot.
This appears to be two female pronghorn antelope. The females have very short horns with no prongs.
This is another yellowbelly marmot. Typically, they live in colonies and one will stand guard to alert danger. This one was perched atop a guard post along the roadside.
We saw this mule deer on our first morning. She very quickly ran into the woods and then we didn't see another mule deer the entire trip.
On our drive out of Yellowstone, hundreds of bison were walking down the road. This baby bison didn't seem to be scared of the vehicles and was just jogging down the road.
