More Rockies WIldlife

If you're very careful, wildlife will ignore you, and walk right by you.  Yes, these are real coyotes, up close and personal, near the Moraine Park meadow in the Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday.

 Here are two hummingbirds.  Hummers are hyperactive, and they don't alight very often, and when they do, they don't sit still for very long, so it's kinda hard to take their picture.  But this one stayed put quite a while for me.

Here's a speckled trout in Dream Lake.  The wind was making ripples on the water. 

Here is a ptarmigan, walking on the snow.  They are about the size of a small chicken.

I finally got a photo of a Rocky Mountains moose!  Actually, two different moose in different locations.  The first one was near the headwaters of the Cache la Poudre River...

And the second one was just outside of Granby, over near Grand Lake.  The second one was in the shade, just about sunset, so the color didn't come out as well.  Both of these moose were on the western slope of the continental divide.  I've never seen a moose on the eastern side of the park. 

Here are some very colorful wildflowers up on the tundra, up near the Alpine visitor's center.  The tundra looks like bare rock from far off, but up close, it is soft mosses and lichens and dozens of different kinds of teeny-tiny miniature wildflowers like these.