It was in the evening and the snow was falling. I decided to get out and to see if I could find a bull elk during the rut season to get a picture with the snow falling all around it. I cam across one bull, all by itself, but too far away for the picture. Half an hour later I saw a bull with its harem, I bundled up and got near where I was not in the way but I could see what was going front of me. The bull was bugling and walking back and forth, he was agitated. Just beyond him was an another bull with a smaller harem, who was also bugling. And to the right another adult bull, with one female and close by younger bulls. I kept looking around me, it was great listening to all the bugling, but I wanted to keep my safe distance from all of them. The bull farthest away, comes toward the bull in the middle, they walked side by side as if they were going to fight, but instead he took one of the female and moved back. The middle bull got more agitated, but would stay with his harem. A few minutes later this happened again. All three kept bugling, it was great to watch. Then the middle bull charged the bull to the right and toward the young bulls, all of them ran back and the middle bull returned to his harem with the one female.
It was great entertainment, but I had already got the picture I wanted. The middle ball in the clear, bugling with snow falling all around him. It was getting dark, time for me to leave and head home and let the rut continue during the night.
