Wildlife Pictures, Page 5
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.
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Baby moose along an Alaskan highway.
A Bonaparte's Gull perched on a rock.
A cow moose with her calf clamber out of the slough we were fishing for pike.
A flock of mergansers flees the canoe.
A great blue heron flaunts his contraband spey hackle.
A large caribou walks through the bed of a glacial river in Denali National Park.
A raven returns to its cliff-side nest along the Copper River.
A Bonaparte's Gull cruises low over a rapids.
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.
A large mink swims around a trout stream in early spring.
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