Wildlife Pictures, Page 4
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 mergansers leave their rock in a mess.
I photographed this cedar waxwing from the canoe as we passed by it.
A raven returns to its cliff-side nest along the Copper River.
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.
This is a pretty cool silhouette of a bald eagle carrying some food, even though it isn't terribly well-focused or well-lit. I was actually driving when I took it (though it was on a no-traffic campground driveway, so it wasn't unsafe) and the eagle swooped into the roadway right in front of me, then flew around to the side and gave me this profile.
Flies and fly tying materials converge on a moose's butt.
A flock of mergansers flees the canoe.
Seagulls rest on a gravel bar across from the fish cleaning station at O'Brien Creek, in between meals.
A moose feeds in wetlands in the Delta River Valley.