June 2, 2011
Bighorn Sheep Ewe in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yesterday in Yellowstone National Park was a bit slow photographically. Our new favorite grizzly bear was out in the morning, but he was on the wrong side of the light and up a hill so I didn't photograph him. I photographed a snowshoe hare just starting to change from its white coloration to its brown coloration, and I photographed some cooperative Uinta ground squirrels in the snow. My favorite image from yesterday is of a bighorn sheep ewe. We stopped to photograph a lamb and five or six ewes really close to the road, and hoped that another group of some ewes and six or so lambs up higher would come down and join them. The second group stayed up high and most of the lower group went up to join them. However, one ewe stayed down low and kept feeding. She gave us some nice looks as she paused to look around at the funny humans.