Mule buck, Coyote, Bison, Black Bear at Waterton Lakes Morning 120921

Tim, Zel and I headed out at 5:45 a.m. from my place with the hope of spending as much time in the park as possible. We made Pincher Creek by sun up, traveling with Landscape guys has a serious affect on driving production, but you have to make an allowance for folks that can find beauty in the land.

We started off with one of the few remaining Swainson's hawks still present, news of a couple of black bear juveniles had us on a quest for early images. Incomplete directions, has us on the wrong road, or did it. We found this nice muley buck along with 5 others.

Along with the Muley's was this Coyote. I thought that I would throw his shadow in too.

After getting to the Park, we stopped in at the Buffalo paddock and found the small heard lounging around. This fellow looked to be the herd bull.

Now into the park, we thought we would take a cruise to see what we had for access. Since it was late morning, we were not expecting to see any bears. This was one of the closest encounters we had all weekend,  It was also one of the largest bears we would find on the two days.

45 minutes later we wre watching to yearling bears, one black and the second was a chocolat coloured unit. The black one came up to the road and gave us a pretty good look.

So with a morning count of 3 bears we decided to head into town to get our hotel room squared away and grab something to eat. Tune in for an update on the afternoon later on this week.
Turbo