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| Mature Bull Feeding In Natural Meadow |
I spent last week in Pennsylvania Elk Country filming
and photographing
the Pennsylvania elk herd.along with any other wildlife that I happened
to find. It was one of the better July trips to Pennsylvania Elk
Country, that I have
experienced with a lot of encounters with bulls in velvet and calves.
Today we will focus on the bulls and look at the calf photos in a future
post. Except for the young spikes, bulls were mostly found either by
themselves or in bachelor groups and they were usually seen either very
early or very late.
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| Portion Of A Bachelor Group Before Sunrise |
The bulls usually left to spend the day in the woods
soon after the first rays of the morning sun hit the meadows although
sometimes they lingered much longer as in the case of the largest bull
of the trip which is shown in the first photo featured today. He was
still feeding after 8:00 a.m. on a bright sunny morning and was still
there when I left at 8:15.
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| Bulls Slowly Head In As Sun Hits Meadow |
We will close for the day with two more photos of 6x6 bulls both of which were taken in the early morning.
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| 6x6 Bull |
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| 6x6 Pauses By Roadside |
I hope you enjoyed the photos. As usual, I took a
lot more video than stills, but it is getting harder to find the time
and motivation to edit so I will not promise when I will post some video
clips, but I do hope to make a post soon about the calf encounters.
Originally published at
Pennsylvania Wildlife Photographer by Willard Hill.
