Wildlife Pictures, Page 7
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.
Morning caribou 2
This is a pretty cool silhouette of a bald eagle carrying some food, even though it isn't terribly well-focused or well-lit. I was actually driving when I took it (though it was on a no-traffic campground driveway, so it wasn't unsafe) and the eagle swooped into the roadway right in front of me, then flew around to the side and gave me this profile.
A raven returns to its cliff-side nest along the Copper River.
A raven flies over the Copper River.
Several frightened mergansers scoot away from the canoe.
A flock of mergansers flees the canoe.
A black bear cub shimmies down a tree trunk near one of my favorite trout streams.
A moose feeds in wetlands in the Delta River Valley.