It was a beautiful day to simply sit outside reading. Of course, Sam was outside with us, but his mind was not on reading! There was a healthy population of ground squirrels and chipmunks roaming the underbrush and they brazenly scampered right beneath our feet. Whenever one would stop to assess the situation, Sam would pounce. Fortunately, his leash was never long enough for him to connect. I suspect there were a few times the varmints were just a bit worried, but they always seemed to return to taunt him some more.
Sam can not take his eyes off of his nemesis, the tiny ground squirrel (upper left corner).
While walking Sam early one morning, I saw a cow moose grazing right in the campground. I didn't have a camera with me, so I guess that one really didn't count. We were determined to see some moose, so I thought we should try to find a good location for early morning viewing before it got dark. The Gros Ventre river runs right along the campground and along the road into the campground. I had spotted a parking area used by fishermen and wanted to see if it would be a good place to watch for moose in the morning.
As we approached the pull-out, we noticed a half dozen cars were stopped and people were all along the river bank. Sure enough, there were moose sightings! We quickly parked and jumped out to find two bull moose on the other side of the river, maybe 50 yards away. The light had faded so much that we were unable to capture any really good shots, but they were certainly better than what we had so far (none). Just before we were ready to call it quits, we noticed a third bull moose had joined the other two for dinner.
It's late afternoon and a bit too dark to capture good pictures.
Finally, I saw my first moose, actually three were feeding together.
Now that I have seen a moose, my goal is to manage a better than decent picture of one.
These big boys would look better in morning light. It's David's job to make that happen!
We will be back some morning to see if we can get better pictures, but for now we feel good that we have finally seen all of the big wildlife the parks have to offer (as far as we know).
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