fauna

Bison calves.

We’ve got several bison herds in the area – this was taken in the spring of 2021 near River Falls. The calves were perhaps a week or two old, and a delight to watch as they capered about.

While captive, they are certainly not domesticated. I have no doubts that if anyone of the adults decided it wanted to go through the fence that encloses them, there’s not much that would stop it from doing so. I took this with the big 600mm lens, and even at that distance wasn’t entirely comfortable.

Bison are hard to image, I’ve found. Big, dark lumps lumbering around in lightly colored grass fields…