Another dreary day.

Tim and I, on the hunt for some grizzlies headed out at 4:00 a.m. today, with rainy conditions.  the heavy overcast sky had the light showing us itmes far later in the day than last week. One good thing today we had no wind.We were almost into Kananaskis when we could see, and most of that was low cloud. We caught a glimpse of a bull moose, who had no interest in hanging around to have his picture taken, quite a ways in we saw an enormous bull elk.  Probably the largest I have ever seen outside of Banff, his antlers looked to be 42" across, and it is only June. He will be a tropy come fall.
Then we found this large whitetail laying down.

He stood up for us, he still has the majority of his winter coat, so he looks a little unkept. You can start to see his reddish summer coat underneath.

We managed to find a pair of moose one button bull and the other, I believe is a cow although it looks like it could have antler pads.

Now for the young bull.

Things were pretty slow until after we turned around to head home (Tim had to be back by 12:30), until we found this chocolate coloured black bear.

We caught sight of another black bear, but it too was too shy to let us cpature an image.
We "ran into" some sort of race that was being held in the front part of the park, so all chances of seeing any futher critters was nil.  We did stop and try and grab a couple of Bluebird shots as they are feeding the young now. Here is the work horse.

And Dad jsut seems to fly around and look good. Although it does look like his charm is fading.

I t5hought that I would just through a shot of a doe in here to show you how "reddish" or orange the Whitetails look when they molt thier winter fur, she has a little left on her rear flank.

As you can tell from the shots the land is lush right now. We have had a pile of rain, and we are waiting for some heat to really get things moving into high gear (especially my tomoto's). Tomorrow is our last Sunday morning bird walk with FFCPP, here's hoping the rain stays away and we are able to capture some new birds.

Turbo