I Spy a Pine Marten

So this story is one of the coolest I've been able to share while I've been living in Yellowstone National Park. I was in the office with my boss and boyfriend when my boss noticed that people were pulling into our resident housing driveway (Visitors are not allowed in this area.). He stepped outside to see what the people were looking at and realized they were watching a sow grizzly and two cubs. They were not visible from the road so a few people snuck in to our drive to snap some pictures of them. The sow had taken down an elk calf that had just been born and was eating it in a safer place, away from the road. While I was sitting on the ground taking pictures, little did I know there was a pine marten sitting above the cub next to the pine tree. I think he realized the kind of danger he was in (being grizzly cubs can climb really well) and decided to take a leap to get away from being food himself. I had always wanted to get a photo of some sort of a pine marten and this just happened to be the first and most unexpected shot I have taken of these creatures! Taken near Fishing Bridge, YNP.