Elk Cow Munches On Grass Nearby Bull Screams In Her Ear

I spent another weekend in the Colockum Wildlife Area, camping at the border of Coffin Game Reserve for the last week of silence before firearm hunting season begins. The elk were particularly active, perhaps they knew what was coming and were trying to get everything out of life that they could.

A cow munched on grass near my microphone for nearly an hour. The sound was so lulling that I had dozed off, succumbing to the lack of sleep that arises from recording distant elk all night. That's when her bull decided to move the herd on and screams nearby, less that 20 feet from the mic. It was so loud as I was monitoring that I jumped up in the car. I looked out, only to see the cow peacefully continuing to munch away. "I've heard it all before", she seemed to say.

20 minutes or so after this recording she would finally work her way over close enough to decide that sniffing and licking the microphone windscreen would be interesting. I now have a grass-green swirly on my furry!