We've
gone to RMNP twice now, each summer we are in Colorado. The top photo
with the ground squirrel enjoying the view was from the first lookout we
stopped at on our first visit. Not the greatest photo in the world, but
he amused me. I was not the only tourist taking photos of him that
morning.
Ground
squirrels are very prevalent and along some of the hikes, especially where
people might stop and have a snack to share, they are brave little
fellows. I did use my zoom lens to get the couple in the second
photo. I likely could have approached closer.
My
animal bucket list did not contain rodents, however. I wanted to see elk
and moose. Elk are not too hard to come by. They tend to come out
in herds near suppertime. The photo of Mr. Elk with his impressive rack,
however, was the first one we saw. "Everyone" was stopping
along the side of a road - something you are NOT supposed to do. So, we
stopped to. And there he was! Down in a low spot off the side of the
road. I had to take my photo squeezed among the other
rule-breakers. Might have preferred the blue spruce to not overlap his
shoulder.
I was
all but despairing as we were winding up our first visit. We were not
going to see a moose.... and then we pulled into another picnic area to use the
restroom and decided to also take the short walk around a pond. There!
There was a mama moose and closer to shore among the vegetation was her parked
calf. Even though mama moose is very far from me in the middle of that
pond, you can see that she has just raised her head up from where she was
grazing below the water level.
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