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.
The cows make mewling cry that I use think was from the young. The farther away a bull's bugle is heard in the distance, the more hillside and forest reverberation swallows it, the more musical and majestic it becomes.
The herd never really settles long in one spot and is constantly on the move. Distant recordings like this are thus the easiest and most common to make. Not long after dawn the herd had mostly moved away from my camp.
