5189ex the Bouncer

This one makes me smile.

 

Female elk "guarding" her field, enforcing the National Park Service regulations intended to keep them, and too curious visitors and photographers, separated at a safe distance. Taken from our car as she stood roadside.

 

Near the Oconoluftee River, GSMNP, North Carolina

 

iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/photos/105815004

 

 

Jenny Pansing Photos

 

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