The famous grizzly, 399.
The amazing Grand Prismatic spring in Yellowstone National Park.
Water shrew tracks. Looks closely for five toes on all feet (rodents only have 4 toes on the front ((shrews are insectivores, not rodents))).
More tracks of the water shrew. Like a regular shrew but larger.
Bearberry honeysuckle.
This is a cherry leaf infected by a “finger gall” mite. Eriophyes cerasicrumena does this to black cherrys… not sure if it also does this to our local choke cherry.
Bison in front of the Tetons.
This is a sagebrush infected by the midge Asphondylia auripila.
Another picture of the sagebrush infected by Asphondylia auripila. They create these fuzzy strange growths. They turn brown like this after they are dead… when they are young they are a green fuzzy growth.
Beaver chew on a cottonwood branch that was about eye level. Must have been a deep snow drift here when the beaver was feeding.
A hiding yellow-bellied sapsucker. This bird drills shallow, uniform “sap-wells” in trees which hardens and ferments, attracting insects to feed on the fermented sap. The bird returns to eat those drunk insects.
Warbling Vireo in her nest.
Delphinium glaucum. Tea and alcohol extracts from the seeds have been used for many years to kill lice and cure scabies.
Beautiful view of Death Canyon and Phelps lake.
Giant trumpeter swan tracks. This is North America’s largest waterfowl weighing 20 pounds and they can eat their entire body weight in a day.
There are badger, wolf, bison and grizzly tracks in this photo. I’m sure there’s more in here too.
All that’s left of a 4 week old fawn killed by a mountain lion. Nothing for scale here but the hooves are about an inch long.
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