I’ve only been to Yellowstone on 4 different occasions and 2 of those were this year. I’d only seen what someone told me was grizzly bear…it looked like a brown dot on the horizon! This spring, well alleged spring, things were far different for me. I saw grizzlys every day I was in the park and often multiple different bears. I am guessing that I saw bear on 10 occasions and of that 7 were most likely unique bears. Not bad for 4 days!
It was quite a rush to be able to photograph them on a couple of occasions. Of course having a long lens is essential and I was lucky several times to be at the right pull off at the right time to get some images. Still there are a lot of bears. I was surprised that I only saw 1 black bear and that was at a great distance…
You can see all of my bear photography and order prints…HERE.
In case you were curious:
- The largest land mammal in North America
- In 1800 there were 50,000 bears in the lower 48 states of which there are now 1300
- Males can be 7ft tall and weigh upwards of 600 lbs
- 85% of their diet is plant life
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- Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis. Also Silvertip Bear or North American Brown Bear Jeff Wendorff Photographer
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- Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis. Also Silvertip Bear or North American Brown Bear Jeff Wendorff Photographer
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- Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis. Also Silvertip Bear or North American Brown Bear Jeff Wendorff Photographer
It was cool seeing the bears in virtually every part of the park. You can see where I photographed mine on this handy map. Since they are territorial, who knows you might still find them!
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