CREATURES BIG AND SMALL

June 26, 2013

A couple of Bison

Home on the range where the deer and the buffalo roam...  We did see lots of bison today and actually we did see lots of prong horn deer, but we weren't able to get close enough to the deer to get good pictures.  We're still looking for moose.  Haven't seen any yet, but everyone says they are around.   We went to one overlook where there were signs not to hike the trail because of recent bear activity.  There are black bears and grizzly bears in the park.

This is a picture of a bird I saw flying into the hay loft of one of the old barns in the area.  These birds are very common in this area, but I don't know what they're called.   I also saw several blue birds, but they're very hard to photograph.  They just don't sit still long enough.

SQUIRRELS!!     

The ground squirrels are everywhere.  They're kind of fun to watch.  They make sounds like birds to warn  the others when people are getting too close.   Hillary goes kind of crazy when she sees these guys running around.

In the evening we took a drive over to Signal Mountain and had dinner at a place overlooking Jackson Lake.  It's a beautiful place with the lake in the foreground with the mountains as a backdrop.


Tomorrow we're going to Yellowstone National Park.