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Our year is off to a busy beginning. We filmed and photographed a pronghorn capture collar operation in northeasten Montana in January. World Wildlife Fund, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and others started a study on the migration patterns of pronghorn. This area of Montana borders Canada and the research will look at distance and landscape use by the pronghorn herds. I photographed the base operations and Steve filmed fm the helocopter. He's still smiling! Images of this project can be seen in the Ecosystem Gallery.
The end of Janruary we treated ourselves to visit family is Arizona. We found some new places to explore and had a short beark form winter white. We also had a couple of opportunities to visit Yellowstone. Wolves, bison, bighorn sheep and elk kept our attention and cameras busy. February found us travelling with friends in Yellowstone to share the marvelous wildlife.
Our ecosystem project last month took us to the American Prairie Reserve. We filmed and photographed the bison herd in snow. Our weather was cold but clear which provided great opportunties to capture snowy prairie scenics. Unfortunately winter hasn't been cold enough. We visited Ft. Peck Dam to film bald eagles fishing in the dam's tailwaters (Missouri River) and there wasn't enough ice to concentrate the eagles.
March holds the hope of spring which can be a long way off in this part of Montana. We've seen temperatures warm enough to melt much of our snow, only to have about six inches of new snow fall yesterday. A couple of our apsens are in "catkin" stage, meaning the buds are open and look like pussy willows. We've seen more of the songbirds and raptors as of late and a few ground squirrels.
Look forward to updating in about month with some new images in the ecosystem gallery...see you then!
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