The wildlife is exploding in the park… Once mid-May arrives, it’s as if a light switch has flipped on. It’s time for everyone to raise babies, much to our viewing pleasure. Bison calves skip and hop along with the herd, the first bear cubs follow along with mom,...
The iPad has taken complete control of my fun-loving ‘nature kid’. Sitting in a pile on the floor, swaddled in a red and green plaid blanket beside the space heater, my 9-year old has been seized by the device, and it isn’t letting go. Surely, all...
You can imagine my excitement when I got a text message from a friend innocuously asking, “are you local?” The meaning surrounding this line of a text is, “if you can, you better get your ass over here fast. But if you can’t, no big deal, this...
There aren’t a ton of moose in Yellowstone (less than 100 on the northern range), so when we see a few gathered together it’s quite a treat. On this day, we actually saw 10 moose over the course of the morning. This video shows two young bulls (probably...
How good is your memory? Can you remember directions to a new location without writing them down, or a handful of friend’s phone numbers? A Clark’s nutcracker will cache on the order of 50 to 80,000 seeds each autumn, and return to them over the course of...
We’ve reached the tail end of the elk rut here in Yellowstone, but we are already counting the days until next fall. In this video, listen to George describing elk behavior during the rut, followed by some fun footage of elk shenanigans. Further reading: Secrets...
