Glacier N.P. Wildlife

Here are a few shots from our trip last month. We kept missing the bull moose at Fishercap Lake, but did finally see a cow on our last attempt there.

These are tack sharp! I take it you were using your 100-400 and the 1.4X to capture them?

Nice shots. I visited GNP about a month ago. That's a cool shot of the bear. I didn't have good luck with bears in Glacier and only saw one black bear.

Mountain Goat kid is cute.

tarheeldragon wrote in post #16218696
These are tack sharp! I take it you were using your 100-400 and the 1.4X to capture them?

Thank you. Yes, all were taken with the 100-400L, but not with the 1.4x TC -- I left that at home, as I only use it with my 135L or 70-200 f/4 IS, which were also left home. I used my 7D for the wildlife shots, and the 5D3 with either the 24-105L or 17-40L for all my landscape shooting.

dbricks wrote in post #16218730
Nice shots. I visited GNP about a month ago. That's a cool shot of the bear. I didn't have good luck with bears in Glacier and only saw one black bear.

That was the only bear we saw, but we got much closer that I would have liked. I walked to within 10 yards of it on the Red Rock Falls trail before I noticed it in the grass just below the trail. At first I could only see the light brown back in the high grass and thought it was a deer (we had seen many on the trail), but it then lifted its head to revel itself. I slowly backed away, and fortunately the bear went back to eating. I took the photos after backing up to a safe distance, and that was the best shot I got. My wife and I had to wait about 15 minutes before the bear moved off the trail. We consider ourselves very lucky.

Wow, nice series, so many different animals and great shots of them all. I really like the bear pic, it may not even be the best of the series but it's my pick. The Moose is exceptional too.

Grizz1 wrote in post #16219872
Wow, nice series, so many different animals and great shots of them all. I really like the bear pic, it may not even be the best of the series but it's my pick. The Moose is exceptional too.

Thank you. Yes, on this trip we saw a nice variety of wildlife, unlike our first visit to the park about 14 years ago. Seeing the ptarmigan on the Hidden Lake trail was a first for me, and it's been a while since I've had such a good look at a moose, too. We visit Yellowstone much more often, and there are very few moose there since the big fire in 1988.