Wildlife Pictures, Page 3
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.

Several frightened mergansers scoot away from the canoe.

A porcupine climbs a pine tree near a trout stream.

Several mergansers leave their rock in a mess.

This muskrat swam around me for a while as I fished a caddisfly hatch.

An annoying, trout-scaring brood of mergansers shoots a rapids in reverse.

I photographed this cedar waxwing from the canoe as we passed by it.

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

A merganser too young to fly scurries ahead of the canoe.

Two garter snakes rest on the warm rocks alongside a path through a trout stream gorge.

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