


January 2024 offered me an incredible opportunity to photograph canines in the snow, in Yellowstone National Park and in Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota. Coyotes, in their full, gorgeous winter coats, are so much fun to watch as they “mouse” in the snow and plunge head first after their small prey. This Coyote was on alert for its next meal. In Sax-Zim Bog, although we were there to photograph birds with the Great Gray Owl our primary target, serendipity offered me the opportunity to photograph a Red Fox, also resplendent in its full winter coat, from a vehicle serving as a blind. And, I must admit, as much as I love to photograph Coyotes and Red Fox, the crowning jewel of my January adventures was this Gray Wolf in Yellowstone, walking directly past me as I stood leaning against the Snowcoach. As awestruck as I was to be this close to a Gray Wolf in Yellowstone, I still managed to lift my camera to my eye and shoot until he disappeared into the woods.