Yellowstone Wildlife

Of course one of the main reasons you go to Yellowstone is so that you can see lots of wildlife up close. We were not disappointed. You can see in the collage that vehicles get stopped as buffalo decide to cross the road. They sometimes just stand in the road and look at you. Their heads weigh about 200 pounds, and the looks they give will make you happy to just sit and wait! We saw two bears while we were there. We weren't able to get a picture of the first one since the motorcycle going by scared it off. The one in this picture was seen on our last day there. Both times they were grizzlies. We didn't see any black bears. We have an unverified sighting of a moose, but no one but me saw it, so they say it doesn't count. If Hubby didn't drive so fast maybe someone else would have! Anyway, it was eating bark in the trees as we drove by. By the time we got turned around to try and find it, it was gone. The only other moose we saw were females in the Grand Tetons. All of these pictures were taken from the van, either by opening the door or rolling down the window. You can see part of the van window in the picture with the elk's head down. That's how close we were. We had watched a movie prior to that about being safe in the park, and it showed elk attacking cars for no apparent reason. I was praying hard as this one passed by! The other pictures are a buffalo and calf, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. We also saw a coyote pass by like a dog on a walk across the street, but we weren't fast enough to get a picture. We saw a pack of wolves the first night as well, but they were too far away to photograph. Lots of people go out int he evening and park their cars along the side of the road. They take their camping chairs and sit out with a thermos of coffee and watch the wildlife. We never did that, but if we had had more time we might have. Something for the next trip I guess.