Wildlife Pictures, Page 3

This is the first grizzly bear I've seen. It's in Denali National Park. People with long-range binoculars, plus the view through a couple spotting scopes the park installed at this stop, verified that the little light spot my arrow is pointing to is, in fact, a grizzly bear. This is the closest view I got.

Bull caribou walking away

I found this big snapping turtle crossing the road next to the headwaters of a tiny brook trout stream I've never fished.

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

We found this bear in the spotting scope a few minutes before another group of hunters shot it.

A Bonaparte's Gull perched on a rock.

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 saw very few bears along the shore, and had to climb up on the mountain to go after them. Exceptions were the very first bear we saw on the trip, which we didn't get, and this one spotted during the raft trip back to camp with my bear.

A great blue heron flaunts his contraband spey hackle.

Troutnut's first bear!