Here & There and back to Yellowstone

 

Sunrise with large flock of Black-billed Magpies moving through.

Cedar Waxwings descend on Mountain Ash berries.

Forty plus waxwings strip tree, many young with adults

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

Migrating Red-winged Blackbirds feeding on our sunflower seeds

Blood Moon

Mill Creek Canyon - fire went through here a few years ago

View from Snowbank Campground

Mill Creek

We found "our" favorite - American Dipper

Bald Eagle over open area of stream

Land Snail

A pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks, perched, flying and calling

Signs of Autumn - Red Osier Dogwood at Yellowstone National Park

We had arrived in the dark and heard wolves howling and elk bugling.

Yellow Aspen brighten up the hillside

God's color pallet on full display

Weathered pine stump

Large Grizzly Boar by Alum Creek in Hayden Valley

Bear digging and feasting on roots

Northern Harrier rodent hunting

Common Raven begging for food from tourists at roadside parking lot.

Flock of Bighorn ewes and lambs

Collared Bighorn Sheep movements tracked by park rangers

Trumperter Swans feeding on aquatic plants in Yellowstone River

Artist's Point on the South Rim looking at the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River

Heard the rushing water and as it hits, large mist clouds arise.

How "Yellowstone" got it's name.

Undine Falls

Yellowstone Mesa

Fall is ending at this altitude and snow will arrive soon.  Morning tempature was 21.

Mammoth Springs Elk herd, Magnificent Bull in the building shade,

Rangers keeping visitors at safe distance.

North of Gardiner, another Elk herd enjoys the green fields

Warm afternoon, time for a dip in the Yellowstone River.

Trip up to Tom Miner Basin to look for wildlife.

Grizzly sow and her twin cubs warily keep track of approaching boar.

Time to head for the tall timber. 

Another Grizzly boar, giving us a total of 10 bears for the morning.

Bull Moose wanders through the willows along Tom Miner Creek

The Bull sports a respectable shovel rack.

Two young bull Elk stay clear of the herds.

As we were heading out of the basin, this Mule Deer buck walked right next to the road.

Every time we take a ride from our home in Livingstone, we marvel at all the wonderful beauty all around us.  The abundence of wildlife is ever before us.

❤️ Love & Prayers 🙏🏽,

Ty & Ida Baumann

Livingston Neighborhood & Trips West, North and East

 

Double Rainbow at Sunset from our condo.

August brought a lot of thunder showers, much needed rain.

Turkey Vultures starting to migrate south

Backyard sunflowers at their peak, 

American Goldfinches are enjoying the seeds

Abundant flowers, much more than we expected, brightens our backyard.

Praying Mantid

Black-headed Grosbeak comes for sunflower seeds

Neighborhood Bucks, note deformed antler on left buck.

White-tailed doe stretches for apples, looks like a late fawn.

Bucks are starting to strip velvet off antlers, only one on right left to go.

Time for a little combat, bumping heads in the rut.

Teasel dropping seeds, we cut some for decoration

A trip west to Jackson Creek 

Variegated Fritillary like the thistle

Red-tailed Hawk rests in the forrest

Ox-eye Daisy along the roadside

Dusky Grouse hen with three of the four grown juveniles

Red Squirrel attracted by pishing for birds

Fireweed flowers in bloom - common pioneer plant

A ride north to Brackett Creek Road brought a fun surprise

Sow Black Bear was on the road and ran into the trees and sat down.

Suddenly she climbed up high in the fir tree

Down below a cub scurried to the next tree

It quickly climbed to the top after pausing to have his picture taken

Cub number two scampered up the same tree

Getting harder to see, they waited for Mom to say the coast was clear.

They were calling to her with soft moans.

Pine Siskins were feeding on Thistle seeds

They fed on more seeds and grit on the gravel parking lot

Three Red-naped Sapsuckers gather on a utility pole

Up higher at Bridger Bowl ski hill, the trees were covered with moss

A trip east on Swingley Road, we encountered lots of tent caterpillars

A Cedar Waxwing eating fruit

Cedar Waxwings were also hawking for insects

Clark's Nutcracker diving into adjacent pine trees

Here's the pine nuts he really wants - Pinyon Pine

Pine nut in beak

Bulging throat filled to take away to store for winter

Clark's Nutcracker named by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis when they explored the west from 1804-1806.

Sunrises are enhanced by smoke from the western fires.

Hopefully they will all be put out soon.

Our prayers are with all those affected.

❤️ Love & Prayers 🙏🏽

Ty & Ida Baumann