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.

A black bear cub stares down at me from a large pine 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.