During my recent two week vacation, I took a afternoon hike, as I often do, my routine is waking up usually before 5am having a sunrise location already staked out from previous scoutings or tips,   getting there catching that hopefully awesome sunrise maybe getting some wildlife shots while waiting for that sunrise,   then catching a couple more early morning light locations before midday.   then I'll go on a afternoon hike for exercise or more scouting locations while having a long lense over my shoulder for chance animal encounters.  go to lunch/dinner  then off to a sunset location  and thats usually my day on photography trips.

OK on to the happenings of this hike,   This is part of the Jenny lake trail on the west side of the lake, I knew where there was a Osprey nest from the previous time I was at Grand Teton National park, so I decided to go back there and see if I could get some cool Osprey action shots.   not to much luck on getting those shots, one of the Ospreys flew off the nest before I could get decent pixels on the bird you can see those shots on my public facebook page, give it a look if you got the time

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154299477988644.1073741855.621048643&type=1&l=fc466d8dcc

But what made my day was this encounter with a Male Red Fox before I got to the nest.  

As I walked around the bend I see this walking right me,

I thought should I move off the trail or will he move?

he kept looking right then left at a brisk trot it did'nt even look like he noticed me, he kept looking left then right, I thought he was gonna run right into me,  then he finally notices me or maybe he saw me the whole time  but he was on a hunting mission it turns out and did'nt even bother a care that I was there.    he looked at me a split second and looks like he said  and I had in my head a brittish voice,   "oh excuse me mate I'll move off the trail"  reroutes off the trail just 5 feet( it felt so close I could have reached down and petted him) and he noticed something move off the trail,   you'll see those pics here in a bit,   he keeps really still moves in slowly  and looks over to me as to say sssshhhhh   then looks back towards the movement of the possible meal,   ( I later see that meal was a marmot two of them were under the logs)  but then says maybe next time  then gets right back on the trail behind me, off on his rounds he goes.  I see two other hikers looking on at the fox as well and they said they were excited for me as I was just getting those shots  they saw the whole encounter I had with the Fox.  cool cool just one of those special life moments you don't get every day.  such a wonderful wildlife encounter my day was made!

Then on my walk back to the trailhead I see the same fox using the same path again, I thought we are gonna cross paths again, yep he walks right around me giving me the right away and getting back on the trail doing his rounds he goes.  It was just awesome how friendly he was, I've never had a encounter ever with a fox like that. 100 percent before that they were always specs in my viewfinder on my camera. I thought are they always cool as a fox like this one was?  don't know  but first impressions are yes fox's equal pretty cool tame animals :)    they are gorgeous to look at thats for sure.  If I lived in the Grand Teton area I'd be all over trying to find there den and getting those early morning behavior shots.   Man this guy looks like some stuff animal you'd see in a gift shop does'nt he I just wanted to pick him up and pet him haha.

And thats it from this Blog, sorry I have'nt wrote to much from this trip, been busy trying to find a job so I can save up money for my next Wild Photo Adventure.

There's alot of pictures here yeah I lit him up with the 1DX haha but I wanted to show here a sense of my moment and occasion with the fox both encounters are here as you scroll down

& here's Mr.Fox