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.

A whitetail deer takes a cool drink on a hot August afternoon.

A two families of Canada geese flee our canoe.
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A couple Canada geese take off from the scenic but nasty, swampy, and apparently troutless headwaters of a small, beaver-ravaged stream.

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.

Mating toads, a common sight on Catskill rivers in early May.


A brood of trout-eating mergansers lurks on a fertile trout stream.


Baby moose along an Alaskan highway.
