wildlife in november?

[greg]

i have a rare opportunity to take a one week vacation in mid november

and i would love to make it into a wildlife/scenic photography trip. i

would prefer to keep it in the western united states. i guess i will

be renting some sort of sport utility vehicle.

my first thought was yellowstone, but wouldn't it be mostly

innaccessable that time of year?

thanks for the help-

greg

[cliff___]

isn's Bosque del Apache active in November? in New Mexico

[don_baccus]

Bosque would be good, the "festival of the cranes" is about the last

week in November. The beach at Asilomar is great for shooting

shorebirds in winter, and Point Reyes and the like have sea otters to

shoot, and there are whale-watching boats to take, etc. Neither of

these places require a sport utility vehicle. Monterey area has

expensive lodging, Soccoro (near Bosque) $25 motels and it's an hour

from the Very Large Array if you're into shooting really cool

technostuff.

 

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There are all sorts of places to consider. How about the desert

southwest? In places like Canyonlands you can actually justify the

renting of a sport utility vehicle. Arches/Canyonlands...or

Zion/Bryce...are great landscape shooting places.

[philg]

The Southwest is perfect this time of year. You get some colors in

the trees. The light has a nice angle even towards midday. The

temperatures are mild (70s).

[brad_mills]

I went to Rocky Mountain National Park a few years ago. Many big horn

rams were near one of the enterences near Estes Park. Also deer and

elk. It was head banging time for the Rams and they were more

approachable than other times of the year. A 300mm lens gave almost

full frame body shots with patience. A few examples are at -

 

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<a href="http://members.aol.com/dbradmills/nature.htm">my personal web

page</a>

 

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The weather, for me was good, I was worried about snow, but luckily

missed a storm by a week. The crowds were non-existent.

[ShunCheung]

There have been quite a few questions about "where should I go at such

and such time of the year." At the end of the book "The Nature of

America" by David Middleton et. al. (ISBN 0817449949), they have a

list of suggested places in North America to visit for every month of

the year. Bosque del Apache is in that list for November.

[steve_ralser]

Festival of the Cranes is nov 19-22. (in addition to the Festival of

the Crayons - which this year I have been told will include a Whooping

Crayon - if you are here for the cranes you will see the crayons on

School of Mines Road). The URL lists the program for anyone that is

interested

 

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http://www.nmt.edu/mainpage/festival/homepage.html