Wildlife Pictures, Page 2
Expert wildlife photographers stake out their quarry like a hunter and wait, sometimes for days, for the perfect shot to appear. I am not one of them. But once in a while on a trout stream the wildlife photo opportunities come to me, and when I can I have my camera ready.
Bull caribou walking away
A Bonaparte's Gull perched on a rock.
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.
Two garter snakes rest on the warm rocks alongside a path through a trout stream gorge.
A Canada goose and gosling poke their heads out of the grass along a trout stream.
A musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.
Some mergansers stretch and prepare to evacuate their rock as our canoe nears.
This is the first grizzly bear I've seen. It's in Denali National Park. People with long-range binoculars, plus the view through a couple spotting scopes the park installed at this stop, verified that the little light spot my arrow is pointing to is, in fact, a grizzly bear. This is the closest view I got.
These seagulls live at the salmon-cleaning station during this time of year.