Thursday, May 26, 2022 My last day here. I climbed up Dave's Hill and watched both dens for a while this morning. This afternoon, I'm going to go up Tom Miner road and explore. I leave for home in the morning
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Still warmer – it got into the 60s today. Spent the morning at Crystal turnout, watching the South Den with Doug and a couple hundred of my closest friends. You can tell the season is beginning – cars were parked for at least ¼ mile along the road on both sides of the turnout. I got another decent video of the activity – it was overcast and cool, so the heat distortions were minimal: I also got a decent photo of a pronghorn:
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Sunny and even warmer – it made it into the 50s today. The morning was spent watching wolves. The mother of the new pups is in the process of moving them from the North den to the South den. Nobody is sure why. When I left the North den this morning, there was still at least one to move and she was prevented from moving it by other wolves. Once again, nobody knows why. In the meantime, I got a good coyote photo and some bison calves also known as “red dogs”:
Saturday May 21, 2022 Cold and snowy at Gardiner but cold and dry at Slough Creek. This is just a generic wolf watching video, This is the kind of stuff we see off and on all day – just the wolves going about their lives. Pups come out and explore around and, sometimes, Mom stuffs them back in the hole. I was hoping to record the howling we were hearing, but it was apparently too faint for the phone's microphone and people wouldn't shut up.
Saturday May 21, 2022 Cold and sunny. I decided to go down south to check out an eagle nest I was told about. After a bit of hunting and some help by the eagle, I found it: Along the way, there was a wolf on a carcass in the Hayden Valley: And then I made a stop at LeHardy Rapids for the harlequin ducks: One other thing happened. Yesterday, they saw some much smaller wolf pups at the North (or Natal) den. That means that there is another litter there. Nobody knows how many there are, yet. But based on their sizes, the consensus is that they are 10 days to 2 weeks younger. Thus morning, I got a short video of an older and younger pup together. It starts with a younger pup out on the porch of the den. At about the 10 second mark the much larger older pup appears and pounces on it. It is quite obvious the difference in size. What is amazing is how much they can grow in just that short time. Note: it works better if you view it on Youtube. The pups are small in t...
