To follow up on what Ballpark pointed out below

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Posted by Granite Head (209.252.105.57) on 13:43:42 07/14/12

Successful wildlife watching and photography, at least for an opportunist like me (but not like Doug Dance and others who make studied efforts and devote untold calculated hours yielding sensational results) is hit or miss.

For instance, 2012 was The Trip of Bear Dots. I've been lucky several times and have some really nice grizzly photos, especially, to my name, but the closest we got to a bear this year was a big shiny black black bear that ran in about 100 feet front of the car and deep into the woods on the other side of the road in the vicinity of Sylvan Lake, where I've not seen a bear before. Pretty as he was, that bear was too fast for pictures, all the others were too far for pictures. Or the bear jams were such that there was no hope of setting up and doing a good job.

This is a black bear sow who was said to have 2 cubs sleeping on the other side of the log, 100 yards north of Calcite (thanks, Lady Bear, for locating your nap near good off-road parking!). She was mostly snoozing herself, every once in a while she'd look up at the small, ranger-corralled crowd waiting for her or the kids to do something interesting. They never did, at least while we were there.

• Ballparks owl efforts

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• Good bear action, VERY far away - Granite Head 13:51:59 07/14/12 (14)
  • Cranky Bear and cubs - Granite Head 13:53:25 07/14/12 (13)
    • While everyone's attention was riveted on the bears - Granite Head 13:58:18 07/14/12 (12)
      • Mud Volcano bears - Granite Head 14:05:37 07/14/12 (11)
        • Floating Island Lake bear - Granite Head 14:20:51 07/14/12 (0)
        • Crappy crop - Granite Head 14:10:13 07/14/12 (9)
          • Oops, sorry, Floating Island Bear somehow inserted himself... - Granite Head 14:21:59 07/14/12 (8)
            • On the other hand, wildlife is where it finds you - Granite Head 14:24:24 07/14/12 (7)
              • It even allowed a shot of... - Granite Head 14:25:51 07/14/12 (6)
                • It was completely obvlious to the little crowd standing there... - Granite Head 14:28:31 07/14/12 (5)
                  • And it was awfully cute - Granite Head 14:29:42 07/14/12 (4)
                    • Big fan of rodents and Beaver Slides near Otter Creek - Kent 10:55:28 07/15/12 (0)
                    • He's saying....Welcome to Yellowstone!!!:) - kristi 07:58:09 07/15/12 (0)
                    • When someone/something smiles - Gracie 19:56:52 07/14/12 (0)
                    • Nice beaver... - Gerry 16:09:55 07/14/12 (0)

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