![]() ![]() Well, you can’t always follow the rules in wildlife photography. The number one rule in outdoor photography is keep the sun at your back. You can see from the rim lighting around the elk’s body that the sun was coming from behind it. The lighting was very bad for this photo. ![]() The cow moves her calf (or calves) several times a day during that seven days and they stay motionless until their mom comes back to feed and move them. The calf is kept hidden for about a week. When cow elk are close to giving birth they go off by themselves for the birthing. She looks like she may be pregnant and I assume she was close to giving birth. I hope it made it.Īs I was driving from Mammoth to Tower shortly after sunrise one morning I spotted this lone cow elk looking at me. I got there by first light, but there was no sign of the calf or its mother. ![]() By that time I had developed some connection to the calf and its mother and I decided that even though it was far from where I was staying I would get there by first light the next morning to see if the little one made it through the night. I stayed until I couldn’t see and took this photo well after sunset. He added that a pair of coyotes had made an attempt to get the calf, but the mother had held them off. Another photographer was already there and he told me he saw the mother give birth that morning. They live about five years less than elk in the rest of the park, according the the Park Service.Īnyway, it was getting late when I spotted a cow elk with this very small calf. The animals are also affected by high fluoride and silica levels in the plants and water which wear their teeth out prematurely. It’s the only elk herd that stays in the park in the winter and that takes its toll. That’s partly because the elk herd in the Firehole/Madison area numbers less than 100 animals. I don’t regularly drive along the Madison because I don’t have much luck there. It was mid-June in Yellowstone and I was driving along the Madison River looking for animals to photograph, especially baby animals. That’s true with the images of this elk calf. When I look at old photos I don’t remember much about some, but others I remember very well. Another thing I did in the interim was go through old images, like this photo of an elk calf, which I photographed in 2014. Hopefully, I’ve done what it takes for everyone to find this site. I’m back and one thing I did during the interim was build a new website (and get rid of two former websites). I apologize to those who have followed my blog for not having posted anything for many months. (16) All of the evidence suggests, therefore, that the drawing was probably intended to represent a deer or perhaps an elk. (15) Bears in Glacier National Park follow wolf packs and mountain lions to remote regions using them as providers of meals of deer and elk. (14) Prion diseases occur in sheep, goats, mink, mule deer, elk, cats and cows. (13) Although they scavenge less often than Bald Eagles, they will eat carrion of deer and elk, especially in winter. (12) Much more demanding is big game hunting for brown bear, elk and deer. (11) The wildflowers will be out and so will the elk, deer, sea lions, seals, and sea birds. (10) They resemble in these respects similar grooves on the antlers of moose and elk and the frill and horns of Triceratops. (9) Soon after the studies began, however, Foothills deer and elk began dying from a mysterious disease. (8) Deer, elk, and sometimes bobcat and coyote may be seen or heard from the cabin boundary. (7) The land around the ranch is a protected wintering area for elk, deer and bighorn sheep. (6) Deer, elk, bear and mountain lions can all be found at this attitude. (5) Coyotes, white-tailed deer, elk, and even alligators can cause problems on the ground. (4) In some parts of America, people like to hunt deer, elk and bears, while in other areas they hunt wild boars. (3) It had yielded both mule deer and elk for us in the past. (2) After I swapped for it, I took six mule deer and an elk before moving up to more ├ö├ç├┐modern├ö├ç├û guns. (1) As these species became extinct, the giant birds switched to bison, elk, and deer. ![]()
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