Wildlife Pictures, Page 6

I saw this porcupine cross the road behind me while I was watching from a bridge for some large trout I'd heard about. I ran back to the car for the camera and got quite close for a picture. Speed is not one of the noble porcupine's many virtues.

A porcupine climbs a pine tree near a trout stream.

A cow moose with her calf clamber out of the slough we were fishing for pike.

Baby moose along an Alaskan highway.

Seagulls were perched on the rocks watching for outmigrating juvenile sockeye salmon to get disoriented in the whitewater and bubble up to the surface where they can be grabbed. I caught one of them that hit my fly in mid-air and got hooked in the wing, but didn't get any pictures because I was too focused on releasing it. It was fine.

Wandering tattler. This type of sandpiper is known to nest next to high streams above treeline in rugged Alaska mountains.

A Bonaparte's Gull cruises low over a rapids.

A merganser too young to fly scurries ahead of the canoe.

A black bear cub shimmies down a tree trunk near one of my favorite trout streams.

A herd of caribou (all cows) crossing over a hilltop near the Kuparuk River.