Lek surveys were canceled again dark and early this morning, because of snow. So I have nothing to say, and intend to fill this entry with some of the banners I created last month.

Oh, and if you've been feeling fine, but have aching ears and jaw after your shower, and blood comes out on the Q-tip, should you worry?

Some of the healthy elk we found while flying in February:

Frosted elk hair on the west fence, on a cold and sad day.

Seem to have a lot of thoughts on elk lately, these four found happy and sassy in the desert:

From my folks' back porch last year:

On remote Scotty Lake, soon to be a center of coalbed methane activity.

Taking a break as we searched for elk carcasses, one of which I was standing over as I took this shot.

This jackrabbit came squirting out of a culvert under the "non-descript road" as our convoy of ATVs, bearing the first elk to be borne off the winter range alive, passed by last 29 February.

A merganser on Lake Yellowstone last May.

The first touches of dawn on a mountain peak in the Tetons, also last May.

A ferruginous hawk sitting on her nestpole out in the gas patch. Came by a day or two later to find two curious rig workers parked next to the pole, the hawk circling in panic above. Was less than tactful to the two gentlemen as I explained what the structure was, and pointed out her distress. I have seen the two men since, still wandering around bored in their out-of-county truck. But the hawk has stayed, which is unusual for ferrugs, and they've left her alone.

A herd of bucks that I had to classify in the last hour of the last route of the last day of antelope classifications last September.

Sunset early in the crisis last February:

An Indian Paintbrush blossom peeking out amidst silversage, last August:

The lone grouse we found strutting last month:

A pair of swans on the National Elk Refuge last May:

That's not my finger the tick is crawling up. Do I need her permission to post that here? A modeling release, at least?

A male harrier over the Ferris dunes last week:

And since I still haven't got anything to say, another moonset image from last week.