More adventures - Fairy Lake, Convict Grade Rd., Yellowstone NP.

 

Ty climbed Sacagawea Peak in the Bridger Mountain Range 

to look for Mountain Goats.

After 3 hours of climbing to above treeline he was sucessful!

He found five, Two Billies at the top and this Ewe and lambs a little lower,

This is Sacagewea Peak at 9,654 feet.

Weather worn tree back at treeline..

Back down the trail to Fairy Lake nestled in the forest.

This Montana sunrise greets our visitors from Wisconsin, Paul & Rae Tyriver

Bald Eagle along the Yellowstone River

Lots of Wild flowers were along Convict Grade Road.

White Cranes-bill

Wild Bergamot

Harebell

Giant Red/ Scarlet Indian Paintbrush

Alpine Aster

White checkered Butterfly

Wild Turkeys, young are growing fast.

Northern Harrier mouse hunting

N. Harrier takes flight

Coyote in same field also rodent hunting

Red-naped Sapsucker

Blue-eyed Darner

White-tailed deer resting in neighborhood field

Went up to Tom Miner Basin to find Grizzly Bears

Sow and cubs in front of large Elk herd

Another cub trying to keep up with Mom!

Silvertip large cub at "meet and greet" with sow

"Good to see you again!"  Nose rub.

We had a total of 9 Grizzly Bears at Tom Miner

American Pronghorn Antelope, center doe has collar.

We went into Yellowstone National Park with our friends and ran into a "BearJam" near Roaring Mountain.  Grizzly is shaking water off from brief rain shower.

This large collared Boar was making quite a scene.

The Grizzly studies the public camera crowd

The bear is determined to come across the road above.

He starts running toward the crowd.

Rangers were yelling repeatedly at the people to "get back in your cars now!".

The bear runs up the bank between the bumper to bumper vehicles and escapes into the

 dense evergreen forest.

This beautiful pond was indicative of the beautiful days we had to share God's Creation with our friends.

❤️ Love & Prayers 🙏🏽

Ty & Ida Baumann

Beartooth Pass, Yellowstone NP ,Tom Miner, Livingston & Dailey Lake

 

Pika at the summit of Beartooth Pass (10,947 ft)

We had visitor's from Green Bay come and we were happy to give them a wildlife tour.

Kim, who works at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary and her friend Nonnie came to do the full Yellowstone National Park adventures.

Mountains show why they named this Beartooth Pass.

Several Red-tailed Hawks were hunting the heights keeping the Yellow-bellied Marmots in hiding.

Birds were just hanging in the strong winds without flapping or moving.

Surprise!  White-rumped Sandpiper lands at a small puddle on the summit!  

You can see for miles from up here, Looking southwest is Yellowstone National Park.

Above treeline are many alpine flowers like this Alpine Gentian

Clark's Nutcracker at the high trail above Red Lodge.

Steller's Jay

Steller's Jay hopes people will drop snacks for him.

As we were coming through the park early our first encounter was a Bull Elk.

Much sought after Moose sighting. 

Pronghorns doing a little jousting.

We also saw a Black Wolf but too far away for a photo.

Plus hundreds of Bison roaming Lamar Valley.

Since we couldn't find any bears at Yellowstone, we asked our friends if they wanted to go up to the Tom Miner Basin where we had seen Grizzly bears the week before.  The bears didn't dissappoint us.  We saw a total of nine Grizzly Bears including this curious sow and her two cubs.

A drive four miles east of Livingston we found two families of Wild Turkeys.

This young one is older than the ones below.

Mom calling her chicks to come along quickly

White-tailed deer crossing backwater of the Yellowstone River.

Deer walking up the Shield's River

Eastern Kingbird displays it's seldom seen red crest.

Juvenile Golden Eagles near the river 

Three Golden Eagles, one on left is eating a rodent.

Huge Golden Eagle nest high on the cliff ledge.

Mist rises over the Yellowstone in the morning sunrise.

Hen Common Merganser completing her preening exercise.

Rock Wren 

We heard and started counting Pinyon Jays (105 flew over us)

We followed them to a resident feeding station.

One day later a few stopped at our backyard feeder.

About 40-50 also came into a neighbor's feeder

Pinyon Jays always seem to be on the move - we hope they come back.

Our Sunflower garden is doing well.

Attracting birds and bees - male American Goldfinch loves the seeds.

A few dark red sunflowers mixed in.

At sunrise the Canada Geese head out to the Barley fields

Another jaunt to Dailey Lake to check the Western Grebes, young are growing fast following close behind Mom hoping for fish from her.

Young Pied-billed Grebe

Great to see blue skies over the blue water of Dailey Lake,  For days we had smoke haze making the sky gray and not being able to see the mountains at all.

Thankful to be able to see God's creation all around us!

❤️ Love & Prayers 🙏🏽

Ty & Ida Baumann