At our first stop of the day, we heard elk bugling before sunup, and even saw a fox cross the road. We witnessed a young coyote following a couple whitetail deer, which are apparently a rare sight in the park. When we stopped in the Lamar Valley, we saw eight young wolves from the Prospect Peak Pack about a mile from the road. They were quite a ways a way from their own territory, and we were privileged to hear them howling to their parents. The wolves named 996M, a black yearling, and 964M, a gray yearling were two collared wolves that were in the group we were watching. A short while before we left the site, we saw a herd of pronghorn antelope move through the area, and we heard a family of coyotes howling.

Our second stop was to get a closer look at a bald eagle perched high in a tree. After that, we stopped at the Lamar River Stock Trailhead to hear some wolf stories from our guide. We also got to see some bighorn sheep way up on the skyline of a peak. At the stop after that, we hiked to wolf #9’s den. We took some photos of a elk skull and  I saw some grasshoppers and a yellow dung fly.

We went to Mammoth to listen to some presentations by Travis Wyman on elk and the bears of Yellowstone National Park. I found it interesting how much insects bears eat. Later that evening, while back in Gardiner, we went to a presentation by MacNiel Lyons on his photography and some stories he told using pictures. He also gave some great photography tips.