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Okie Derby, Yellowstone : September 10-24, 2025

Part 3

September 20: Madison Junction area

I was still loading the car on the ramp when my friend's flight came in. We poked around the Madison Junction area in the late afternoon and got to the Fountain Paintpot boardwalk just after sunset.

Skywest 4248 (CRJ-700)

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California Tortoiseshell

Madison River

Elk

A calf is hiding in the grass

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Firehole Falls

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Maiden's Grave Spring

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Celestine Pool

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Silex Spring

Fountain Paint Pots

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Clepsydra Geyser

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September 21: Norris, Mammoth area

We visited the Norris Geyser Basin and Mammoth Hot Springs, with numerous stops along the way. Then, on the way to the Lake Lodge, we came upon an area that had gotten a significant amount of hail, and where a lightning strike had apparently set a tree on fire.

Great Blue Heron

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Common Mergansers

Belted Kingfisher

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Gibbon Falls Picnic Area

Gibbon Falls

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Beryl Spring

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Norris Geyser Basin - Porcelin Basin Overlook

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Crackling Lake

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Constant Geyser

Scummy Pool

Hurricane Vent

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Congress Pool

Obsidian Creek

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Obsidian Cliff

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Trumpeter Swan on Swan Lake

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Canary Spring

Orange Spring Mound

Angel Terrace

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Least or Yellow-pine Chipmunk (?)

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Minerva Terrace

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Mound Terrace

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Undine Falls

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Hailstones!

American Coot

The burning snag

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Mule Deer buck

Petrified tree

Black Bear cub

Momma Bear

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A Firehawk responds with a water bucket

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Water drop (video screencap)

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Osprey

Roadblock

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Wolves bedded down

Scaup (?)

September 22: Lake, Canyon area

Some elk bedded down in front of the lodge made for a good start to the morning. We heard about a grizzly camped out at an elk carcass near the road to the east and went to check it out. Then it was off to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

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Elk with calf

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Make that two calves

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Common Raven

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Steamboat Point

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Wolves (on hill beyond snags) with a bear

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Williamson's Sapsucker

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Grizzly on an elk carcass

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A coyote checks things out

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The grizzly returns while the coyote looks on

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Grizzly and coyote

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Goldeneye

Synchonized geese

Trumpeter Swans

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Dragon's Mouth Spring

Mud Volcano

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Hayden Valley

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Upper Yellowstone Falls

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American Red Squirrel

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2 stop HDR

2 stop HDR

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View from Artist Point

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Lily Pad Lake

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2 stop HDR

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Brink of the Upper Falls

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View from Lookout Point

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View from Inspiration Point

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There's a hint of an aurora

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Towards Pegasus in the east

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Summer Triangle overhead