Took a few photos of some elk while l was down looking for sheds.
Here's a cow and calf.



And here's a bull I seen with his new antlers.


 

--Last edited by Shed94 on 2007-05-08 16:33:51 --

there's an elk farm right down the road, but i've never seen one in the wild. good shoot'n. thanks.

Yeah there's a farmer about 30 miles from me that has 6 elk in a pen.

Shed, That last bull is the one from last year that only grew the tiny broken off looking antlers.

He's fairly old from what I understand.

I caught him napping today. He wasn't happy getting a wake up call at noon....lol

You mean this one?

I was going to ask you if you knew which bull he was.Have you seen 36 around?I was hoping to see him when I was down but didn't.

yup thats him.


Not sure about #36.

He's become shy lately.

It will be interesting to see what type of rack he grows this year.

I found #36 today.

If he keeps growing like he is now he's gonna be impressive.


He is no longer comfortable with people getting to close to him.

He is hiding out now in an area that is fairly void of humans.

He's not far from town, but in an area that most people don't go in to.

Was you able to get a photo of him?

ofcourse.







Here's an elk getting rid of that nasty winter hair.

Now while it may look like I'm close to him. I'm not.

I'm about 40 yards from him, hiding behind a big tree.

The second and third pics are of him racking his antlers through the tree in hopes that I'll take the hint to leave him alone.

The first one is when he realized I wasn't going anywhere without the sample I came to get from him.

After he wandered off about 100 yards I got my sample and left. I came back through the area about 20 minutes later and he was laying back where he had been. I gave him a wide berth and he never moved.

Great photos!Thanks for the update Kevin.