My recent trip to Glacier National Park was one of the best moose trips I have ever had. I have never seen so many moose at one time, let alone got so many good picture opportunities of them. If you listen carefully in some of the videos, you will hear elk bugling in the background. The elk would answer me when I bugled them, but nothing got them as riled up as a bull moose grunting. I took literally hundreds of pictures of moose, here are some of my favorites as well as many videos (I have more to upload later as well).
I was blessed to see a cow and a calf as well as a lone cow many times throughout the trip. Here are some of the better pictures of cows and calves. I one time had the calf run by me through the water at less than 2 feet, I got wet from the splashes.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_QWHl8AYfg[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea_ogWyz9_0[/youtube]
There are also three bulls in the area. I only got pictures of two of them, luckily, the one I did not see was only a spike. Both bulls were rutting and grunting the entire week. The smaller of the two was constantly following cows around and trying to court them. The cows always turned them down. I had both bulls walk by me at less than 15 yards.
Here are the pics of the smaller bull:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZZ_Mi8GV0[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6LnojizH3A[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYay1pHFxjY[/youtube]
**More videos to come soon**
I also got some great pictures of a really nice bull one day. He came out to the lake grunting the whole way and just walked right by us and across the lake. He really got the bull elk riled up. One of the elk kept bugling and grunting at him from in the trees, unluckily he never came out into the open. I know nothing about scoring moose, what does this big guy score? What about the smaller bull for comparison?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZdWhVQ4RU[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EnxHxyrShc[/youtube]
