Caribou

The Kenai River Flats is an enormous flat area cut through by the Kenai River not far from where it empties into Cook Inlet. In the spring it is a resting and feeding place for thousands of migratory birds. Sometimes in summer small numbers of caribou pass through, and they are also eating fresh vegetation and resting. I don't know where they come from or where they are going, as I have never seen them anywhere else.
Today I had to go to Kenai and had a choice of two roads. How lucky that I chose this one! A group of about 10 caribou were hanging out together, and this guy was alone several hundred yards down the road.