Up early again, dragging ourselves out of bed this morning. It was freezing, in the low 20s, and also foggy. We caught sight of a nice bull elk at the river's edge, with three females in the forest above him. When he got wind of us he joined the females. We drove a bit further and stopped at another spot. We could hear at least two elk bugling but didn't catch sight of them. By 8:30am it had warmed up to 29 degrees; brrr. We went to the pull out where people are always looking for wolves and we saw two of them in the distance. Since we'd had such great wolf sightings before, we didn't stay long. We didn't see anything special at our other favorite stopping point. As usual, we saw lots of buffalo along the road; we see hundreds every day.
On the way back to the lodge we saw a coyote in a meadow. He was quite close and we watched him hunt. We saw him catch three or four things, presumably rodents. The first we could see in his mouth. He was a good looking coyote; all the ones we've seen here are healthy looking and have pretty coats and fluffy tails. They are different and nicer looking than the coyotes we saw in South Africa. After he got a distance from us, we continued and stopped just north of Fishing Bridge, where I had spotted two great blue herons. We stopped at Fishing Bridge and when we came out of the store (we keep looking for cat litter to no avail) there was a raven sitting on the roof of the car! He seemed quite content there. Was he tired of flying? Did he just think it would be cool to take a ride on the Z4?
We spent the rest of the day doing laundry, reading, working on photos and the blog, and getting ready to leave tomorrow.
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