What’s going on in the Northern Rockies right now? Everything! This is go time for most species, time to rear young, grow antlers, and put on fat. While summer heat hits the valley bottoms, ice still melts up high. Fresh glacier lilies unfold slowly in the alpine shadows. Below is selection from the week’s wanderings around the Northern Rockies.
A long-billed curlew surveys its territory below in which two vulnerable nestlings are beginning to walk.
The echoing rattle of Sandhill cranes penetrates the thick heat of the day.
Sun setting behind a few ponderosa pines. A lone magpie passes by overhead.
[...] Weekly Photos from Conservation Media: Summer Ice, Curlews, and More. Friday, July 9th, 2010 [...]