Second Day of Visit

We got up at 3:00 am this morning to show Jimmy and Mary the Lamar Valley wolves.  We got there and instead of hills full of spotting scopes that we had talked about there was no one in sight.  I thought to myself I should have stopped and talked to ranger Rick to see what is going on.  When I got back to where he was parked he to was gone.  I felt bad that my guest was not going to be a part of the search from the wolves.  After looking up and down the valley we decide to head over to Hayden Valley to see what we could see.  When we started by Slough Creek we saw all the people that were absent at Lamar Valley.  They said there were two wolves that came by at 6:00 am and they had not seen them since.  We looked at some Big horn sheep that even through the high dollar spotting scopes seemed far away.  After that we took a vote and decided to go to Hayden Valley.  After leaving the Slough Creek camp ground road we noticed cars stopped on the road toward Yellowstone bridge, we pulled over and parked and watched 3 coyotes harassing a black Wolf.  We knew that probably there was a coyote den near and they were trying to get the wolf to move on, a move that would only happen to a single wolf.  The Black wolf had a collar on so it was a alpa male from the Slough creek pack. 

We had a good day went to the Lodge at old faithful and watched the geyser explode on time.

Went into the lodge and found the lighting to be to dark for a hand held shot with my G9 so decided to wait for the 5D and tripod.  We were all tired and other than stopping by  a road side sign or two for pictures we went to the house.