6-24 to 7-4: Animals in Tetons and Yellowstone

[Chip]

I loaded a slideshow of some of the animal pics we took. In basic order are (wild); coyote, a dark shot of a bull moose at dawn watching the sunrise in the shadows, young buck, grizzly, longhorn sheep, eagle, grizzly in distance maybe with a cub, buffalo, black bear, elk, bull elk, cliff nesting swallows, mountain bluebird, eagle young, western tanager, eagle, coyote, bull elk, buffalo and calf, collared grizzly, marmot and pronghorn.

After the 2 shots of the cactus flower are wolf and grizzly close-ups taken at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, MT. This is a small but well run Not For Profit that houses about 8 Grizz and 4 Wolf and does alot of education and training programs about the 2 animals. This is also where bear-proof canisters get tested.

http://chip.phanfare.com/album/338739#imageID=20866216

This one is for Puck:

 

[David Metsky]

Very nice. I started looking at the pictures before reading the full post and I was wondering how you got so close to those grizzlies!? When I was there last year we saw most of the same animals but not as close as you and no grizz. What camera/lens were you using?

 

[Chip]

Most were with the Canon Powershot, some with an Olympus FE-170 I bought out there because my old Olympus Camedia couldn't handle the 1gb cards I bought for it.