Saturday Sept 15, 2018 The quest: get a picture of Canada geese on the wing with pine trees in the photo. So I left my house at 6:00 a.m. (I missed my 5:00 departure because I really wanted to sleep) and headed for Island Park ID. The perfect location and since the geese are headed … More Island Park & Yellowstone
Sunday September 2nd I don’t know what I was thinking. I KNOW that Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest days at Yellowstone. I was thinking I could outsmart the crowds and visit some of the lesser known places. Sure, there’d be traffic and people, but I could cope. Sadly for them I roped … More Labor Day – Yellowstone
Sunday May 20th Now this was a tricky morning, we wanted to be out by the wolf den for the sunrise. In May that means earlier than the crack of dawn. I think we were up and moving around 4:30 and out by 5:00 a.m. Well, we got outside and there was mist and fog. … More Yellowstone with Melinda & Shanna pt 3
Saturday May 19th On Saturday we got up early and headed into the park towards Mammoth. We made it there earlier than I expected so we had lunch at the Mammoth grill, and checked in early to the hotel. The Mammoth hotel is a lovely old fashioned place to stay with the bathrooms down the … More Yellowstone with Melinda & Shanna pt 2
Friday May 18th Melinda arrived from Texas on Thursday the 17th. Hooray! Let the fun begin. The three of us (Melinda, Jenny, Shanna) birded our way North to Yellowstone on Friday. Our first detour near Ashton on Flagg Ranch Road was blocked by a barricade closing the road. A detour meandered us over to Warm … More Yellowstone with Melinda & Shanna pt 1
Saturday April 21, Yellowstone This was opening day for the West entrance into the park and the first day the road to Old Faithful was clear. The park still has people, but not nearly the numbers that we see later in the summer. I rented a 12 passenger van for this day trip into Yellowstone. … More April in Yellowstone 2018
April 2016 – to West Yellowstone, Mammoth, Bozeman (and rock show), and back to West Yellowstone and home with Shanna, John, & Bill. Trumpter swan, Island Park ID Gibbon river Beryl spring Mammoth terraces Top of the Mammoth terraces Bison Moody terraces Looking down the white terraces at Mammoth Some of us Bison Baby bison Bozeman … More Time Travel: April 2016 Yellowstone
Day trip to Yellowstone with Shanna, Regina, Katrina and Cheryl Back side of the Tetons… Osprey in nest box, Island Park Caspian tern in flight, Island Park Antelope Vesper sparrow Wildflowers Cinnamon teal Muskrat wake Mallard ducklings Clark’s nutcracker Mama and baby black bear Great horned owl nestlings Mountain goat White tailed jack rabbit Elk … More Time Travel: June 6 2016 Yellowstone
10/22/2017 West Yellowstone to Old Faithful and back with Shanna, Cheryl, Regina & Katrina. The overcast dawn light really highlighted this knob of a mountain. Firehole river falls Geese in the meadow Mossy tree Rafe in the mist Winter is coming But autumn lingers (heat killed trees) Midway geyser basin overflows into the Firehole river … More West Yellowstone to Old Faithful
10/21/2017 Evening of light snow with Shanna, Cheryl, Regina, & Katrina Madison River Valley, Yellowstone I’m using my Sony a6500 with a new Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS Full Frame E-Mount Lens. The lens was both birthday and xmas present for me. It’s AMAZING. I’ve never had anything like this for photos. I’m so … More Evening at the Madison River Valley
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