more deer november 6th

The rut is awesome time to see, most deer only fight with other deer around the same size, I saw the big buck play around with a smaller 3 pointer tonight. the Buck runs through his doe's and is smelling the air behind them, they also lick there tongue and curl there lips to get the smell to choose the right one.

They are more evolved in sex and the smell of the females in heat and ready to mate , you can walk up to most bucks this time of year, they tolerate people unless they yell at them or go running at them,during any other time of the year you wouldn't be able to get that close to a buck unless he is dead or tame.

more deer

Deer

last night

last night I drove up to my new secret spot up north, It was around 60 degrees outside very warm for this time of year, we have had winter for two weeks and now this heat wave.

No animals could be found, I think this time change has them messed up, or maybe it is just me? I take the later one.

After a awhile saw two bull elk clear up on the top of this peak, the mountain is covered in scrub oak and mixed in with pines and aspens, and sage brush, very mixture of ecosystems, then down below you have sage brush, willows, and a river that the ducks like to hang out on, the moose also.

But the moose was up high also, I think it might have been all the Sunday drivers out.

Three moose a cow, calf, and a bull together up in the pines , but to far for even my lens.

I need the weather the cool down again and bring them down, I would hike up to them, but it is all private and signs every where, I will try for big deer the next couple days.

moose elk, october 09

Winter is not to far off, the trees and the land will be asleep under a blanket of snow.
The bears will soon be buried into the mountains and fall into a deep sleep, the elk and deer will move down into the valleys to find food, the humans will be snuggled up in there homes by the fires.
I didn't accomplish much this year as in pictures, I won a couple contest, but with photos I took last year.
there was tons I want4ed to photograph before winter gets here, I love to photograph bear, but they are almost done for the year. They are wandering around in a little daze right now looking for there last minute calories , and those left over berries they didn't eat this fall.
my goal was to photograph a grizzly standing on his hind legs, that inst going to happen I didn't get back to Montana this fall.
I even missed the elk rut up there, I didn't get any photos of rutting elk.
The good news the Deer rut should be starting soon, and the Bighorn sheep should be fighting the middle of next month . in February grouse and eagles, so things sleep, but other lives in the snow.
I miss my wolves in Montana and Wyoming hoping that they survived the hunts, I am a little sad that I didnt get done the things I wanted to this year, it has thrown me into a depression , I know now that I would never survive without nature and the freshness of the mountains, the pure beauty of the wildlife that lives in those jagged peaks and open meadows, those pine and Quaking aspen forests.
I missed hearing an elk bugle 10 feet from me, a wolf howling, a grizzly bear grazing.
But there is always next year!

bear sept 27th

owl

owl in my back yard, I also found 16 gb of photos from the elk rut last year that I didnt know i had lol.