Friends I made in Glacier NP (high pixel content warning)

Dixie · October 12, 2007

Here are just a few of the friends that I made while in Glacier National Park for Shootout '07.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Coyote on the stalk. I would have to say that she became my closest friend because I shot with her for three consecutive days.

Black bear sow and her two cubs. Boy is it hard to get all three of them looking at the same time. I tried to get a couple of DGrinners to go up and talk to them to get them to look my way, but no luck.

Small mule deer buck - small maybe, but he was travelling with two does.

...and they did have one mule deer fawn with them.

Of course there is always the goats, but I would have to call them distant friends. A few DGrinners got lucky and caught a few of them when they came down to earth, but I wasn't one of the lucky ones.

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One grouse in the tree is worth two in the bush.

...and here is his mate who decided to stay on the ground.

...I was able to get up close and personal with his mate. :wink

I also ran into a few whitetail deer. This doe took a moment out of her busy day to pose for me.

...and here is the best find of all. This is Nikolai, the wild one-eyed shutterbug, introduced to the wilds of Glacier NP from Russia by Smugmug.

I hope you enjoyed them.

Maestro · October 12, 2007

Absolutely wonderful series. The deer and whip-o-will(?) are my favorites.

dbaker1221 · October 12, 2007

all were great to look at...thanks

:ivar

GREAPER · October 12, 2007

Wonderful Dixie. Excellent shots. It was great meeting you.

riddim_maker · October 13, 2007

Seems like you had a blast and images to prove it

Giphsub · October 13, 2007

Wow! Great set

I like the coyote and the grouse shots in particular.

Dixie · October 13, 2007

Maestro wrote:

Absolutely wonderful series. The deer and whip-o-will(?) are my favorites.

Thank you, Stephen. I'm sort of partial to them as well.

Dixie · October 13, 2007

dbaker1221 wrote:

all were great to look at...thanks :ivar

Thanks, Dave.

Dixie · October 13, 2007

GREAPER wrote:

Wonderful Dixie. Excellent shots. It was great meeting you.

Thanks and feeling is mutual. I really did enjoy meeting everyone and have already signed up for next year's shootout and looking forward to seeing all the returnees as well as meeting the newbies.

Dixie · October 13, 2007

riddim_maker wrote:

Seems like you had a blast and images to prove it

Thanks, Russ. You're right, I rather be out in nature than anywhere else.

Dixie · October 13, 2007

Giphsub wrote:

Wow! Great set I like the coyote and the grouse shots in particular.

Thank you, Mike. Regretfully, a couple of us got the coyote in trouble. We didn't do anything wrong, but an idiot ranger couldn't stand us getting photos of the coyote and threw rocks at her to chase her off. I reported the ranger prior to leaving on Sunday morning.

Ric Grupe · October 13, 2007

Great shot!

Heads down doesn't hurt this shot one bit, IMO.

Wonderful series, Dixie.

grimace · October 13, 2007

WOW!!! Great wildlife shots Dixie!! I was running all over the park looking for a couple of these creatures and never found them. Next time I'll just follow you.

Elaine · October 13, 2007

Wonderful! I especially like the shots of the goats and the bears!

DesertRat · October 14, 2007

The mule deer shots are amazing!

Mike

gluwater · October 14, 2007

Excellent as usual Dixie. Those bears were hard to shoot. They were pretty close but still, I'm not ecstatic about anything I got from them. I like the natural background of your buddy the coyote also.

raptorcaptor · October 14, 2007

Excellent set Dixie!

ian408 · October 14, 2007

Dixie, some really nice work. You captured the coyote & other wildlife very
well.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

Ric Grupe wrote:

Great shot!

Heads down doesn't hurt this shot one bit, IMO.

Wonderful series, Dixie.

Thank you, Ric.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

grimace wrote:

WOW!!! Great wildlife shots Dixie!! I was running all over the park looking for a couple of these creatures and never found them. Next time I'll just follow you.

Thanks, Adam. You going to Utah next year? ...if so, we go wildlife hunting.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

Elaine wrote:

Wonderful! I especially like the shots of the goats and the bears!

Thank you, Elaine, and I still owe you a work flow for Heceta.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

DesertRat wrote:

The mule deer shots are amazing!

Mike

Thanks, Mike. They totally ignored us and there were three of us shooting them.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

gluwater wrote:

Excellent as usual Dixie. Those bears were hard to shoot. They were pretty close but still, I'm not ecstatic about anything I got from them. I like the natural background of your buddy the coyote also.

Thanks, Nick. I had to shoot and go through a bunch of them to find a couple of acceptable ones.

The coyote picked the location, I just pushed the button.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

raptorcaptor wrote:

Excellent set Dixie!

Thank you, Glenn. Your comments are appreciated.

Dixie · October 15, 2007

ian408 wrote:

Dixie, some really nice work. You captured the coyote & other wildlife very
well.

Thank you, Ian.

gus · October 15, 2007

You always appear to have a card up your sleeve dixie ! I dont know how you get them but they are terrific

Harryb · October 15, 2007

Outstanding set Dixie.

Dixie · November 26, 2007

gus wrote:

You always appear to have a card up your sleeve dixie ! I dont know how you get them but they are terrific

Thanks, Gus. You just have to learn to talk to the animals.

Dixie · November 26, 2007

Harryb wrote:

Outstanding set Dixie.

Thanks, Harry. I have some to post in the near future from Merritt Island NWR. I also went to Viera Wetlands, but the road was closed because of heavy rains. I was in the area Oct 30-Nov 5. If the Viera road hadn't been closed, I would have given you a call to let you know that I was there. I checked on both Nov 1 and Nov 4, but it was closed both days.

davev · November 26, 2007

I don't know how I missed this thread.

Anyways, very nice shots. I didn't become the good friend with the coyote like you did. I was more like an on the street acquaintance.

Dixie · November 28, 2007

davev wrote:

I don't know how I missed this thread.

Anyways, very nice shots. I didn't become the good friend with the coyote like you did. I was more like an on the street acquaintance.

Thanks, Dave. Good friend of the coyote, but those goats must have thought I smelled because they weren't even good distant acquaintances.