Wildlife Pictures

A whitetail deer pretends to be a moose, sticking its head underwater to graze on rich aquatic vegetation.

A Canada goose and gosling poke their heads out of the grass along a trout stream.

Several whitetail deer cross the river in front of me in the middle of winter.

I spotted this moose calf resting in the snow across the road from the river I was photographing in Alaska in late February.

Bison crossing the Yellowstone River

A great blue heron does a flyover on a flock of young common mergansers. I wonder how many hundreds of young trout go into the creation of a great blue heron and fifteen mergansers... hmm, where's Dick Cheney when you need him?

Photo by Elena Vayndorf.

A whitetail fawn struggles through strong current to return to its mother. It lost its footing a couple times, and I thought for a moment it was going to wash down to me.

This porcupine seemed to be feeding on the filamentous green algae that had accumulated around the tip of a fallen cedar sweeper on a classic piece of northwoods trout water.

High upon a signpost rearing, down upon pedestrians jeering,
Squawking rather nasty things not heard from any bird before;
Parking regulations broken, yet the bird paid not a token,
And the bird was so outspoken, taunting watchers at its fore,
Taunting that it need not pay the fee that we abhor.
This it laughed, and then it soared.

My dad held the canoe in place while I snapped a picture of this immature bald eagle perched in a pine over the river on an August evening. It probably caught more fish than we did.