Oh my soul are we having the time of our lives here, yes the mosquitoes are plentiful and annoying, not to mention the rather loud campers two sites up but all that pales into insignificance when we think of the wildlife we’ve managed to see, in only two days!
Six bears, yup you read that right – 3 grizzlies and 3 black bear, the first grizzly we saw in Grand Teton not twenty minutes into our drive, the other five were all seen today. ‘Course a bear sighting causes much excitement and traffic jams and the photo opportunities aren’t the greatest, but I can still claim the kudos.
A bull moose, big guy was taking a drink early this morning, we got up at 4 figuring we might catch some early risers – so far he’s the only moose we’ve seen. As it turns out, having spoken to Mike the camp orientation bloke, the moose are dwindling and the park is considering starting a program to help boost the numbers again. Mike said we were more likely to see bear than moose so we feel very fortunate to have spotted one.
Bison – plenty of them, in fact we’re so blasé about them we don’t even stop, unless of course some big mother of a bison forces us to..
We’re having a little bit of trouble differentiating between the Elk and the Mule Deer, we’ve definitely seen both just not sure half the time which is which. We are sure this big fellow who kindly sat patiently whilst the paparazzi clicked away madly is an Elk.
The cutest yellow bellied marmosets you have ever seen, little blighters every time I turned the video camera on them would then stand stock still staring at me, doing nothing at all..
Pronghorn antelope – again seen on our early drive this morning.
An osprey – quite chuffed with some of the photos I got of him.
Old faithful (yea I know he’s not wildlife) but he sure was impressive.
Three coyotes, the one was just happily running across the field completely oblivious of the consternation he was causing. The last one we saw caused much excitement for the crowd mainly because they mistook it for a wolf, having examined the pictures I took the consensus on our side is it is definitely a coyote and not the elusive wolf. We’ve pretty much resigned ourselves to not seeing any, sadly.
