{"id":2477,"date":"2007-09-29T07:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T11:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2007-09-29T07:46:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T11:46:35","slug":"elk-bugling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/29\/elk-bugling\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Bugling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Michael,<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Beth and I had been reading in the local papers about Elk bugling during the on-going mating season, so we decided to drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park and hear the bugling for ourselves.  When I flashed my geezer pass at the entrance gate, I asked the ranger there, where is a good place to see elk?  She was ready for that question, and handed us a little schematic map of where the good elk viewing sites are.  After driving about half an hour, we spotted a harem of elk does, and a little further away, two bucks sparring.  They were too far away for my camera, so I just shot a picture of a friendly Stellar&#8217;s Jay. Its feathers were as iridescent as a peacock&#8217;s (but blue).<br \/>\n<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>After driving another half hour, and enjoying the colorful aspen and ash trees (see pictures)&#8211;yellow and a pale orange is the best you get here in the fall&#8211; we spotted a lone elk buck off in the meadow.  He was bugling!  But the sound is more like a high-pitched keening than any brass bugle I&#8217;ve ever heard. Sorry I didn&#8217;t have a 300-mm telephoto with audio recordingequipment.  You&#8217;ll have to be content with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estes-park.com\/notes.cgi?ad_id=1187\" title=\"Elks\" target=\"_blank\">you-tube film<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/rakkity_aspen\/album\/\" title=\"Estes Park\" target=\"_blank\">Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael,Beth and I had been reading in the local papers about Elk bugling during the on-going mating season, so we decided to drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park and hear the bugling for ourselves. When I flashed my geezer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/29\/elk-bugling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}