{"id":6555,"date":"2012-11-11T04:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2025-02-20T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:22:09","slug":"american-bison-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/11\/11\/american-bison-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bison in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve gotten a lot of snow in the Salt Lake Valley since Friday, I swept at least a foot of snow off my vehicle yesterday and about 3 to 4 inches on Friday, as I write this the snow is still falling.<\/p>\n

I went out to Antelope Island<\/span><\/a> yesterday despite the gray skies, low light and the falling snow and while most of the birds and animals were hunkered down, the American Bison were not.<\/p>\n

\"BisonBison bulls fighting in a snow storm – Nikon D200, handheld, f5.6, 1\/250, ISO 400, +1.7 EV, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 70mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Early in the morning the snow fall was heavy and the light was a challenge. In the image above even though I had used +1.7 exposure compensation I still had to lighten the darks some in post processing to show fine details.<\/p>\n

As I photographed two American Bison that were grazing close together they began to fight, with the snow coming down hard it was difficult to get images where the eyes of both bison showed. These two fought for about a minute then separated and grazed some more.<\/p>\n

\"BisonBison on a snowy day – Nikon D200, handheld, f5.6, 1\/640, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 200mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Later on when the snow was coming down lighter I was able to get images that showed the nice detail of the snow-covered American Bison fur.<\/p>\n

\"Bison\u00a0 Bison bull in the snow at White Rock Bay – Nikon D200, handheld, f5.6, 1\/640, ISO 400, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 95mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

This bison walked past with the Great Salt Lake in the background. The snow on his face is there because he had been pushing his nose through the snow to get to the grass below it.<\/p>\n

\"BisonBison bull, White Rock Bay – Nikon D200, handheld, f5.6, 1\/640, ISO 400, +1.0, Nikkor 18-200mm VR at 65mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I love seeing the American Bison in the snow.<\/p>\n

Antelope Island sure looks beautiful right now.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

PS: \u00a0It snowed a couple more inches overnight!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my American Bison photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve gotten a lot of snow in the Salt Lake Valley since Friday, I swept at least a foot of snow off my vehicle yesterday and about 3 to 4 inches on Friday, as I write this the snow is still falling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443,511,26],"tags":[4004,4463,58,4350,4314,4442,3981,11978,4337,4005,156,4062,4069,519,4035,4050,4093,4509,30,102,4032,373],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-bison","tag-antelope-island-sp","tag-buffalo","tag-bull","tag-cow","tag-davis-county","tag-desert-island","tag-fighting","tag-great-salt-lake","tag-low-light-2","tag-male","tag-mountains","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-snow","tag-snow-covered","tag-snow-storm","tag-utah-2","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bison-fighting-bulls-mia-mcpherson-2-3355.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1HJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49375,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/11\/10\/birds-and-beasts-in-a-november-2012-snow-storm-on-antelope-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":6555,"position":0},"title":"Birds and Beasts in a November 2012 Snow Storm on Antelope Island","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"November 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The birds and beasts on Antelope can survive the harsh winters here but as each years passes I wonder how they will be able to adapt to our changing climate. 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