Shadow and Ranger admire this guy's hat rack. The neighbor's house back there is actually a half mile away. The telephoto makes it seem much closer.
Video: The horses and the elk were running around getting to know each other. The squeaking you hear is elk talking to each other. Yes, they do kind of sound like birds.
A fox looks for mice in the field next to the barn. A buck deer strolls down our driveway.
A big bull moose is on the hills not far from Trinity Ranch.
Big Bull Elk are frequent late fall guests.
In the forests nearby are bears, but we seldom see them on the Ranch. This guy wouldn't turn around so I could see his head. He was by Jackson Lake.
Buffalo!! I know, I know.... They call them Bison now. But to us western cowboys they will always be buffalo. "Oh give me a home, where the bison roam..." Nope, it just doesn't fit. We often go horseback riding out among the buffalo herds. Lots of them within 10 miles of the ranch. Go to the horseback page to see some of those pics. The buffalo occasionally, but not often, come to the Ranch, mainly in the early spring. In May of 2011 I missed a chance to get a picture of four of them bedded near our pond.
Some more elk, right outside our caretaker's home. That fence is 20 yards from Jonesy's bedroom window. One night a big bull elk beat up an aspen tree right under our window. The big bulls bugling at each other kept us awake night after night. One night I was so exasperated I went out and hollered at them to "Shut up and go somewhere else to argue with each other!" They quieted down, and five minutes after I was back in bed they started bugling again.
A coyote came wandering by one day in a snowstorm.
_This hawk often helps me irrigate. He will sit on something as I drive by on my Polaris and I'll stop and talk to him.
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Often on our horseback rides we will see elk under the trees.