Sunday, May 5, 2019

Mammoth Campground, Yellowstone

It's time to chase wolves and bears again. I plan to be here until Memorial Day weekend, so I'll try to get these out every 3 or 4 days.

I drove up yesterday and got settled in the campground this morning. Then, I went out to see what was happening.

The Junction Butte wolf pack have pups in the same den as last year. They haven't come out of the den, yet, but they are expected any day now. They were born between 1 and 2 weeks ago. There has been activity around the den, so we know there are pups.

Further down, in the Lamar Valley was a bison carcass near the road. I got 2 videos – one of a pair of grizzlies feeding on it, a mother and her 2-year old cub.

And just a few hundred feet away was a wolf, waiting it's turn:

Later, I saw 4 moose, another grizzly bear and, back at the den later, 6 more wolves. Not a bad first day.