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This was on the small area that seem to be the most undisturbed of the sand dunes with a consistency like beach sand and like the sand plain in Bloomfield. It was less a mixture of sand and silt and other fine material. The plant was not very abundant in this area or elsewhere but we did see more specimens up on some of the hills. This one had a single pinkish purple flower. It also had structures that looked kind of like bean pods.

These bees came to my light sheet. They have the large eyes of drones and are about honey bee sized but have very hairy legs. This is the first ime I have had any sort of bees coming to the light sheet.

This has got to be the most morbid thing that I have ever found in nature that I photographed. A deer that had its stomach opened up and was being eaten by magpies while still alive. This was something that I just never saw on any of my frequent trips to Yellowstone NP when I was younger. It was very unsettling.

Infected with squirrel pox virus. This was one of three individuals afflicted in a group of about 10 individuals, this one the worst case. It was foraging on the ground a bit away from the others reasonably okay, but was clearly hobbled by the sores.

Big-sized bee visiting a Vanilla planifolia flower. It made a very brief visit to one flower and then quickly departed, without visiting other opened Vanilla flowers.

Maybe my presence disturbed the bee. I am not sure, but I think I remember the bee did not entered the flower too deeply, but just stayed on its labellum for a short while.

During a rare snow event at this location. This image was taken at a site that had a remote camera operating from June 2014 to December 2018. In this time period the camera captured identifiable species 2599 times. During this period this species triggered the camera 126 times.