2025—The Remains of the Day

An idyllic looking scene of the frozen Yellowstone River as it winds through Hayden Valley was not so serene just a few days before I took this photograph. What remains of the life and death battle scene from four days earlier is barely visible from this distance. The Wapiti Lake Pack killed a 700 plus pound Bison cow and at least 23 members of the pack feasted on the carcass. After four days, most of the pack have moved on and only a few Gray Wolves are still at the site of the carcass. A lone Bald Eagle waits patiently atop a leafless tree to the right of the site. Very little is left of the carcass and the scavengers are waiting in the shadows to descend on the remains of the day.