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 merlin.
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.
Along the roadside of the Denali Highway, a hunter more successful than I had a good sense of humor.
A black bear cub stares down at me from a large pine near one of my favorite trout streams.
A large mink swims around a trout stream in early spring.
A canada goose looks over some large, downy goslings.
Troutnut's first bear!
Trumpeter swan in 50-Mile Lake off the Denali Highway.
I figured this dead, adult moose was a great reason to turn around, rather than continuing up the canyon and having to sneak back past it after whatever had been eating on it came back.
Date AddedJun 14, 2011
CameraDMC-LX3