Flathead, Swan River and Lolo...WHAT?

Finally, at last, this and the adjoining post, will be the last two from our journey West last month...and I am happy to move forward and play catch up with other things I have wanted to share. 

In this post, we are at

Flathead National Forest in Montana.

After you view this post, I would very much appreciate your taking a look-see at the final post for this series...titled:

East from Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and Home

I wish each of your celebrating the holiday,

a very blessed and safe

Thanksgiving~

Remember to double click on the image, to view a larger slide show of the images shared

 

I am linking up with Mary for:
"Mosaic Monday"

at: 

 http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.

and

I am linking up with Stewart at:

   Wild Bird Wednesday

        (http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/)

 

Entrance into Flathead and the husby walking the pup-cubs. 

This was a very quiet place and as the sign above shows, lots of wildlife...now ask me...what of any of them did we get to view...

NONE...

sigh~

 

We then drove to Swan River National Forest and yea...saw 2 Mallard Ducks...not exactly exciting, but something...

 

And then there was this really nice horse all alone out in it's pasture...

it looked kind of pretty standing there~

The snow covered mountains are always just so stunning to me...

I really love seeing them and wondering what kind of wildlife is right in front of me and I cannot see...

Do you see anything, that I may be missing?  :)

 

The Northwest is heavily loaded with lots of Western Red-tailed Hawks and this one was really animated, peeking up and over at me, trying to figure out why I was making a clicking noise in its direction...noisy shutter~

 

 

 

 

 

We also visited Lolo State Park on this day. 

We actually were making a very large loop to get back to where we had planned to stay and this was one of the many scenic routes in Montana.

Yea, a new bird for my very long wish list.

Hooded Mergansers ~

 

 

And a darling little Pine Squirrel.

These little chaps are always quite chatty, but this one was pretty much just watchful of me~

What you see below, could have been a disaster. 

If it had not been for us being ahead of a very fast moving 18 wheeler, these White tailed Deer may have easily been hit. 

It was only a matter of seconds and even we had to brake a bit, to keep from hitting them...and no, they failed to say thank you. 

I guess these images are thank you enough~ 

A few images of a Western Red-tailed Hawk soaring, very high above where we stopped to take a rest~

Salmon Lake

Seeley Lake

The husby decided he wanted to take a few images of me with our two girls. 

Meaka on my right will turn 6 next week and Silveit to my left is 10 months old...both registered Long Coat German Shepherds. 

They traveled beautifully together~

An adult female Turkey with her 2 young ones. 

She was gently coaxing them away from us~