Sometimes a Place is a Poem 2 (more photographic evidence)

Photos from a wildlife tracking weekend in Vantage, Washington.

Coyote scat featuring the fruit of the Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia).

Frenchman Coulee (Courtesy of the Missoula Floods).

Basalt.

Falls.

Plant.

Uric acid=wood rat.

Woodrat latrine.

Woodrat scat.

Desert flower.

Mantis egg sack.

Frenchman Coulee.

Trackers.

A vantage in Vantage.

Hooves in the ash.

Hooves in the ash (#2).

Sunset.

The calm before the storm.

Geese at dusk.

Geese at dusk (#2)

At 2 AM I needed to pee.

The morning after.

Geese at dawn.

Tracking in snow.

Landscape.

Landscape (#2).

Tracking.

Elk scat.

Elk bed.

Elk tracks.

Trailing.

Elk tracks with dew claws registering.

There are elk in them hills! Can you see them?

Backtracking.

Wild turkey?

At the cliff's edge.

Bighorn.

Bighorn (#2)

Bighorn (#3)

Bighorn #4

Bighorn #5

Cozy.