I finally bit the bullet and picked up a new low light lens. We'll see how I am able to adjust to the required shooting style. I settled on teh 120-300mm F2.8 Sigma, and snagged a 1.4 Teleconverter at the same time. In preparation for our trip to Newfoundland in August I bought the bride a Nikon 9200 point and shoot. Well enough of that stuff, let's get to the meat!
Getting home, grabbing a quick bite and Tim showed up at 5:15 so we hit the road. We started up with some whitetail deer complete with fawns. A mountain meadow is always a gret spot to find elk. After viewing this male, Tim observed that the bull we had seen last week had much larger antlers. This will be a breeding quality male this year, last week's was a herd master to be certain.
Down the road we managed to find this little rascal, his ear tag just reminds me of a Bluetooth:)
"Can't talk now sweetie, the damn tourists are here taking photos!"
In a couple of years this is going to be a great looking "blonde" bear.
A little later in the evening and we found this specimen, no calf though.
20 minutes later there were three cow elk grazing close to the road, no calves here either. Check out how far to the side of the head that the elk's eyes are positioned.
After we turned around and started to head out, we found this Snowshoe rabbit, (varying hare actually) on the road where we had passed him earlier in the evening.
Getting out on some blacktop, I had to back up to get this shot.
We were positioning to get some better shots when a Conservation Officer showed up and told us to get back in our truck. She then proceeded to sound off the alarms and whistles to frighten off the bears. Tim was just "fit to be tied", and was anxious to have "a little chat" with her". I didn't let him out of the truck. This nice blonde yearling bear with her will probably stay one more year with her.
Then whe we figgured we were done for the evening, less than a mile down the road we ran into these three playful units.
These two dark( one is standing on its hind legs), and one light cub are this year's litter. They were a long way off so the photo is less than than ideal. Mom wasn't too far away! You can see that these cubs are smaller than mom's head, much smaller than the earlier yearling.
Here is my best shot of Mom.
After mom moved the three little ones off we took this little side road and ended up spotting this pair just 5 minutes later.
I believe that I have a shot of this cow from last year, on another day when Jamie and I found a Sow with yearlings. I called her Cocaine nose, due to the white edging on her nose. What do you tthink?
Of course there is always time to stop and grab a shot of the moon.
We had a GREAT ride home here is a shot of just one of the eleven GHO's we spotted on the way home.
So it was a GREAT evening, a personal record for me to see 7 wild grizzlies, that represents 1% of our provinces entire total of these magnificent animals. So I was bothered this morning while listening to the radio to hear of yet another problem bear that had to be "put down". If I understand the story correctly, she had three cubs, two have been relocated. I expect that these were yearling s and not cubs at all.
Have a SUPER Canada Day weekend everyone!
Turbo
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