2008 Rocky Mountains Trip

Wildlife Checklist

Mammals

Species Date/Location
  Moose cow & calf Two Medicine Campground 9/8, Jackson Lake, 9/26
  Pronghorn antelope I-15 just north of Dillon, MT 9/8 , south of Galena Summit, 9/16, Gros Ventre, 9/23, Elk Ranch Flats, 9/25
  Bighorn sheep Lunch Creek , 9/9 , Logan Pass, 9/9, Challis, ID 9/14
  Mountain goats Logan Pass, 9/9
  Columbia ground squirrels Logan Pass, 9/9 & 9/10, Goat Lick Overlook 9/10
  Hoary marmots Logan Pass, 9/9
  Deer Highway 49, 9/9 , Goat Lick Overloook, 9/10, Canyon, 9/18
  Bull Moose Two Medicine Campground, 9/9, Owbow Bend, 9/24, Cascade Canyon, 9/26
  Golden mantled ground squirrel Logan Pass, 9/9
  Chipmunk Logan Pass, 9/9 , Altura Lake, 9/16
  Black bear Avalanche Lake, 9/13
  Cranes ID Highway 21, 9/15
  Chickaree Redfish Lake, 9/15, Elk Mt. Resort, 9/15
  Coyote Hayden Valley, 9/18
  Elk Sawtooths, 9/14, Big Thumb Creek, 9/18, Madison River, 9/17 , Inner Park Road, 9/23, 9/24, 9/25, 9/26
  Grizzley Bear Oxbow Bend, 9/24 , 9/26
  Yellow-bellled marmot Beartooth Highway, 9/22
  Fox Coulter Bay, 9/25 , 9/27
  Pika Inspiration Point, 9/26
  Muskrat Oxbow Bend 9/27
  River Otter Oxbow Bend 10/1
  Beaver Schwabachers Landing, 9/25

Birds

Species Location/Date
  Bird Location/Date
  Osprey Cascade, MT 9/8 , St. Mary, MT 9/10
  California Gull East Glacier, MT 9/8, Oxbow Bend, 9/24
  Stellar's Jay Two Medicine Campground, 9/11
  Canadian Geese Stanley Lake, 9/15, Little Redfish Lake, 9/16 , Elk Ranch Flats, 9/24
  Swainson's Hawk Moose-Wilson Road, 9/23
  Cormorant Oxbow Bend , 9/23, 9/26
  Clarks Nutcracker Fishing Bridge RV,
  Bald Eagle Below Gibbon Falls, 9/21, Jenny Lake, 9/26
  Ravens Everywhere