Wolf yearling at the International Wolf Center, Ely MN
Spent the week­end in Ely, up by the Cana­dian bor­der in North­ern Min­nesota. I was the “prom pho­tog­ra­pher” for the Muk­luk Ball! The day after I spent half an hour (far too lit­tle time, but peo­ple were wait­ing for me…) pho­tograph­ing wolves at the Inter­na­tional Wolf Cen­ter (http://wolf NULL.org). The one in this pic­ture is a year­ling pup that was enjoy­ing the sun a great deal! It kept rolling over and putting its legs up in the air to sun its belly.

My favorite photo from the day is this next one, of the alpha wolf, Shadow, walk­ing past the den with a big chunk of deer spine in his mouth. How­ever, I’m not sure that my view­ers want some­thing that bloody on the front page so I’m includ­ing it lower down here…

Any­way, here’s Shadow and his veni­son. The cen­ter takes dona­tions of road­killed deer to feed the wolves; they hunt rab­bits and other wild ani­mals that make it into their acre, but live cor­nered deer are too likely to hurt the wolves if placed in their pen.
Shadow, an arctic wolf, at the International Wolf Center Wolf gallery here.

Oh, yeah, by the way I’m back in the States now. Haven’t updated this blog in far too long…

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