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.
This is a common sight on the large Catskill rivers in early May, a mother goose guarding her nest. They like to nest on midstream islands where anglers are prone to walk from one fishing spot to another, and they do not back down. This one was hissing at me and I didn't want to get any closer.
Date AddedJun 5, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
A Bonaparte's Gull perched on a rock.
This muskrat swam around me for a while as I fished a caddisfly hatch.
I spotted this moose calf resting in the snow across the road from the river I was photographing in Alaska in late February.
A black bear cub shimmies down a tree trunk near one of my favorite trout streams.
Date AddedMay 25, 2011
CameraDMC-LX3
A family of geese take a drink from Lake Superior. They then swam out effortlessly into the high breaking waves and foiled the retrieving efforts of somebody's ambitious dog.
We found this bear in the spotting scope a few minutes before another group of hunters shot it.
A cow moose with her calf clamber out of the slough we were fishing for pike.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi