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.
Two dear make tracks across a frozen trout stream in the deep snows of early February not far from Lake Superior. I had hoped to sample nymphs in the stream (which later turned out to be quite fertile) but it wasn't open.
I found this big snapping turtle crossing the road next to the headwaters of a tiny brook trout stream I've never fished.
A musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.
A large caribou walks through the bed of a glacial river in Denali National Park.
A whitetail deer takes a cool drink on a hot August afternoon.
A cow moose with her calf clamber out of the slough we were fishing for pike.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
A whitetail doe and her fawn lurk in the shadows, waiting to strike.
Some mergansers stretch and prepare to evacuate their rock as our canoe nears.
Two garter snakes rest on the warm rocks alongside a path through a trout stream gorge.
In this "close up" of a grizzly bear laying down on an alpine hillside in Denali National Park, you can almost tell it's a bear.
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