With a snoot full of snow from using his head to move snow out of the way in search for food, this American Bison or Buffalo roams the Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Medora, North Dakota, in -40 degreed (F) wind chilled weather earlier today.
Visited the Theodore Roosevelt National Park today in search of wildlife. As you can see, I was fortunate enough to come across this American Bison (Bison bison) more commonly called Buffalo. This animal was a member of a herd of seventeen slowly moving across a Badlands snow covered meadow. Using their large heads to snowplow the snow out of the way to uncover the tender grass.
The herd of American Bison I photographed in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I used my iPhone camera for this photo.
The Badlands of western North Dakota made for a beautiful backdrop as I watched and photographed these large bovine creatures for over two hours. At one time, four of them came up on the road in front of the car I was driving and looked at me. I felt like I was being challenged but they soon wandered off and let me go on my way.
Internet access via my iPhone has been almost non-existent here in western North Dakota so I haven’t been able to Twitter or upload to this blog as I had hoped. I leave in the morning for Minneapolis where I’ll catch a plane home on Saturday. Look for more photos of my day with the buffalo next week.
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