Wildlife Pictures

Bison crossing the Yellowstone River

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

I'm breaking my rule about naming locations for this picture, since the context adds much to its meaning. This great blue heron is standing on a slab of river-worn concrete silhouetted against the NY Quickway bridge over the Beaverkill River at Cairn's Pool. Several human fishermen pursue trout from one shore while an avian fisherman pursues them from the other.

A black bear cub stares down at me from a large pine near one of my favorite trout streams.

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.

A black bear cub shimmies down a tree trunk near one of my favorite trout streams.

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 musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.