After about 30 minutes of feeding by the lone female moose a yearling bull moose joined her in the water to feed.
Category: Mammals
These marmots are found only in western Canada and the United States and are typically found at higher elevations. This one was hiding in the rocks surrounded by tundra at about 12000 feet.
A very young elk calf hides in the bushes while the rest of the herd was feeding in an open meadow several hundred feet away.
This large adult male black bear was feeding on the last remaining berries of the season along the roadside in Waterton National Park.
This photo is from earlier in the summer before all the grass died and turned brown. Coyotes are one of the most adaptable, resilient animals and can be found in a variety of habitats including large urban centers where they prey on other urban wildlife and domestic pets.
Mom waiting for her calf to finish shaking the water off before moving on to feed farther down the lake. This particular moose is not bothered by my presence and I have learned that if I make myself visible to her instead of trying to hide in the trees she gets much more relaxed and will go back to feeding without paying much attention to me (except when the shutter makes a noise and then she will point one ear towards me, as you can see in this picture).
Across from Upper Wateron Lake the elk have started grouping up into small herds of 10 or so females with a bull elk trying to isolate the females for mating. As usual the elk headed into the trees for the day before emerging at night to feed.
About an hour after taking the picture of the elk I made my way to Akamina Lake hoping to find some moose in the morning fog. When I got out of my car and was getting my equipment together I could hear a moose calling to her calf and I knew I was going to have more good luck. Sure enough, by the time I hiked down to the lake the calf had joined her mom and was standing along the shore as the mom fed from the vegetation on the bottom of the lake.
On a recent hike from Moraine lake in Banff National Park to Lake O’Hara in Yoho National Park myself and some friends descended into a valley where there was an usual rock called Eagles Eryie (photo to come later) jutting out of the ground. This and several other Hoary marmots were using the rock formation as their home.
This moose came down to Akamina Lake both days that I visited it. She would leave her twin calves (photos to come later) in the forest while she fed on the water plants and got away from the bugs. In this photo there is a dragonfly near the ear of the moose. The dragonfly was feeding on flies that were forced to fly off the moose as she almost completely submerged in the water.
These two black bear cubs climbed up this tree while their mom slept on some of the bigger, stronger branches farther down the tree. By the time they were done they had broken off most of the branches, which fell down and were eaten by their mother who was woken up by a branch hitting her on the head.
One of three bison calves born this year in Waterton Lakes National Park.
A coyote walks through the prairie in search of ground squirrels with the Prince of Wales hotel in the background.
Owen Slater Photography 