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.
This golden eagle was probably attracted by that moose carcass.
Date AddedJun 14, 2011
CameraDMC-LX3
Look at the hole in that thing's mouth... no wonder mergansers are a threat to trout.
A Bonaparte's Gull perched on a rock.
These baby Canada geese are just beginning to grow their real feathers.
A musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.
Moose taunting me. This bull moose with little paddle antlers was in an "any bull" area near Fairbanks. I could have put him in the freezer if I hadn't signed up for the guaranteed Denali Highway caribou permit (which prevents me from moose hunting anywhere else).
A two families of Canada geese flee our canoe.
A whitetail doe and her fawn lurk in the shadows, waiting to strike.