Thursday, May 15, 2019

Without pups in the Junction Butte pack den, wolves are hard to find now. You need a carcass to attract them. There is one in Little America that had a single wolf on it this morning, but a grizzly bear seems to own it and spent most of the day sleeping on it.

I saw lots of distant bears and a few coyotes. Then at the east end of the Lamar Valley at a turnout called “Hitching Post”, because that's where the outfitters park their horse trailers, I saw this:

That's a lot of cars. Looking out beyond the turnout, was this:

That's a lot of photographers with big lenses.

I parked and walked over to see what they were photographing and got this:

A bedded down fox. When there are no wolves and the bears are a long way off and the bighorns and bison are ugly while shedding their winter coats, a fox will have to do.

It did give me a 3-dog day – wolf, coyote and fox.

The weather is supposed to turn colder and wetter the next few days. My plan is to stay till Tuesday, the 21st. We'll see.