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~
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I am linking up with Mary for:
"Mosaic Monday"
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"Mosaic Monday"
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I am linking up with Stewart at:
Wild Bird Wednesday
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~
