More young animals

Another trip to Yellowstone National Park after a night before at Chico Hot Springs with our friends Gretchen McBeath and Dick Kane. Gretchen had remarked that this would be her 5th trip to Yellowstone with us and she had never seen a bear. As a side note to those of you who do not know Gretchen and Dick, they are bear lovers and have over 100 stuffed bears that they have collected over the years. In anticipation of the trip, I researched where the bears had been seen in Yellowstone in the last 2 weeks. We arrived in the park just before 7:00 AM in hopes of finding a bear before it got too sunny and too hot. By 8:30 we had driven through mist and fog and had seen no bears. 

I had a couple places I wanted to explore, so we did some backtracking. Soon after we left Tower Junction and headed back toward Mammoth, we saw lots of people and cars along the road. The trip became an immediate success as we saw what the onlookers were seeing. A mama black bear and twin cubs. I have developed 6 of the 75 pictures that I took for the blog.

 This is an early view of the mama and her cubs.

 They obviously were hungry and what they were looking for were grubs, the cubs could have been saying at this time, "mom, what are you finding"

 Mama said, just be patient, these are old trees from the fires many years ago, and I'm sure we'll find something to eat.

 This is just one of the trees where they found grubs. They would dig and eat and dig and eat and dig and eat and then move on to another tree trunk. One of the favorite photographs from the escapade was this cub as it climbed along the top of the tree trunk.