Along the Firehole River seasons pass faster than the river seems to flow.
Snow now cloaks the valley.
Tag: yellowstone
Feast for the eyes
The World Wildlife Fund just released their living planet report for 2018. Up front it seems it seem the report could well be titled the dying planet instead of the living planet report given the summary states “On average, we’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The top threats to species identified in the report link directly to human activities, including habitat loss and degradation and the excessive use of wildlife such as overfishing and overhunting.”
You can read the full report here.
or here
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2018
Please pass along the report to all who care and even those that may not.
Photo: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 2018.
At waters edge
Autumn days spent at waters edge looking across a lake or down the rivers path. Grasses slowly gone from green to gold, clouds have replaced the sun and the winds seem to have picked ever so slightly each day as if to give winter its waking breath.
YNP
Down but not out
Fall colors dulled by a sunless sky.
The shapes of grasses and tress take center stage.
What is there to say.
Sora: Porzana carolina
On a recent hike we came across a small pond in an unexpected place which delivered another unexpected sight, a Sora, out and about foraging on a cloudy afternoon. Given the lack of sunlight and the distance to cover the photos were not the best but the memory of seeing this secretive little bird pecking away still burns bright.
A slice of color
With chilly winds blowing and sky so flat a marble would not roll on it we made our way across Lewis Lake and were treated to a nice slice of color along the way.
Standing tall
This sure seemed to be one proud Pronghorn. Standing tall on the crest of a hill surveying the valley below.
Fall Reflections
Even with shrinking daylight hours and more cloud than sun in the sky there is always beauty to be found on a hike through the woods.
White Tailed Doe
Usually when we see a White Tailed Deer on the the trail they are a bit more skittish than the Mule Deer we encounter but on this day a White Tailed Doe walked along in the same direction we were going keeping her distance but foraging away unalarmed. We also noticed that while the mule deer in our area are turning much grayer right now the while tailed deer seem to be getting a rusty red color to their coats.
Green Tailed Towhee: Pipilo chlorurus
We had not seen a Green Tailed Towhee all summer so it was quite a pleasure to see one of these secretive birds in the distance a week or two ago.
nature has no boss 
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