Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Another nice day. It was in the 30s when I left camp at 5:30am, but quickly warmed into the 60s when the sun came up.

At the Specimen Ridge trailhead, there have been 2 dead bison, one after the other. The first one drew large crowds because a black bear camped on it. The second didn't seem to draw much in the way of wildlife until this morning. When I got there, the alpha male of the Junction Butte wolf pack (this is the pack who's den I've been watching) was there with several other members of the pack. I managed to get a couple of photos and some short videos:

After that, the day was a bit of a letdown. We watched the wolves bring the food back to the den and found a grizzly bear with 2 cubs way up high on Specimen ridge. Then I went in search of an owl nest I had been told about. The directions were great and I immediately found the nest. Later, Josh and I went in search of another suspected (or rather hoped for) owl nest with no luck.

I did get a good photo of an antelope:

And saw another black bear near Tower Falls.