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.
Mating toads, a common sight on Catskill rivers in early May.
Date AddedJun 5, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
A large caribou walks through the bed of a glacial river in Denali National Park.
Date AddedMay 25, 2011
CameraDMC-LX3
Bull caribou walking away
In this "close up" of a grizzly bear laying down on an alpine hillside in Denali National Park, you can almost tell it's a bear.
We found this bear in the spotting scope a few minutes before another group of hunters shot it.
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.
A juvenile gyrfalcon.
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.