Yellowstone Wildlife

On our travels through Yellowstone National Park last week, conditions were hazy from fires. 

Here you can see smoke rising from the Druid fire in the NE corner of the park.

We saw plenty of wildlife.  Above is a video of a black bear that was hanging out eating berries near the Slough Creek trailhead. 

A deer and her two fawns stopped to have a look at us as we walked along an old wagon road. 

This osprey nest was just off the road to the NE entrance of the park.  The four chicks are about ready to fly. 

A pronghorn antelope waded across the Lamar River. 

A (blue?) grouse crossed our path as we were hiking.

Of course there were the requisite buffalo (bison) jams,

and one buffalo skull hiding amidst the remains of summer grass and wildflowers.
We have lots more photos, but this is enough for one post.  Fortunately, we were not hiking in the Canyon area of the park where a grizzly attack occured last week.  We always hike with bear pepper spray at the ready, which appeared to be the salvation of those hikers.