Today, we toured the Lamar Valley on the lookout for animals, and we found them! We just started driving into the park from the west entrance and spotted two Sandhill cranes and a chick next to the crane on the left. It looks like a fuzzy, rusted spot.
Next is a coyote den with a coyote pup and two baby badgers.
Always choose a photographer if you need a person in your shot to show a sense of scale; they never move when taking their shot. Yes, those are bison spread out along the grassy plane and river.
The following photos tell a great story. We spotted a coyote with a huge belly, and it’s too late in the season for pregnancies. Then we spotted a Pronghorn. The Pronghorn sees the coyote and charges, running and jumping on it. It turns out a Pronghorn lost a baby to a coyote the day before, and Mama went John Wich on this coyote, who ran away.
I saw a ground squirrel while eating lunch at a picnic table.
The last animal spotting was a mama black bear walking with her two cubs.
