pics & quips from a wandering writer, photographer, professor, reprobate
Yellowstone’s beloved wild wolf ‘Spitfire’ is killed by a trophy hunter after wandering outside the national park https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6454433/Beloved-wild-wolf-nicknamed-Spitfire-killed-trophy-hunter.html A beloved wild wolf known as ‘Spitfire’ was killed by a trophy … Continue reading Queen of Lamar Valley
These kids were entertaining themselves in a remote section of Yellowstone National Park while their parents & the rest of us were wolf-watching. I briefly wondered how far they had … Continue reading Pic du Jour #43: “Playing in the Dirt”
The month of May in Montana is fickle. Cold and wind and rain vie with warm sunshine and flowers for our attention. At elevation snow turns to water, and the … Continue reading Creek On Steroids, River Run Amok
No more wildlife posts for a while as I am leaving Montana for Miami. But I’ll be back! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Spitfire was chowing down on a bison that had tumbled over and died of natural causes. Big Gray, with a full belly, was not far away. He is the new … Continue reading Me & My Gal
In the wilderness you are never very far away from the edge, and if you take it for granted, it will come up and bite you! Yellowstone National Park is … Continue reading Death In Yellowstone
248 fires started in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1988, twenty-eight of which erupted inside the National Park. More than 25,000 firefighters fought the blazes, with as many as 9,000 … Continue reading The Quick & The Dead
There is a widespread notion that wildlife photographers must go traipsing through the brush and put themselves at risk to capture images of dangerous animals. Admittedly I am only an … Continue reading Secrets & Strategies
Lamar Valley, YNP “Morning Has Broken” – Cat Stevens
A grizzly is a formidable foe, perhaps none more so than Scarface. Oh, he is way past his prime, 24 years old now, nearing the end of the life expectancy … Continue reading Scarface: The Epitome of Wild
Some have taken to calling this feisty Black Lamar Canyon Female, “Spitfire.” And therein lies the rub – who gets to name a wolf? Researchers reserve the right to name … Continue reading Spitfire
Middle Grey and her sister (the so-called “Black Lamar Female”) raided a coyote den yesterday. The distraught coyote parents yipped and barked and howled from a short distance away but … Continue reading Sisters Kill Three, Eat One!
