Wildlife Pictures, Page 8
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.
More of the same herd of musk oxen.
A raven returns to its cliff-side nest along the Copper River.
A lone caribou grazes on the Arctic coastal plain near Prudhoe Bay.
This cow caribou ran across the road in front of my car.
A flock of mergansers flees the canoe.
A dall sheep yew and her lamb walk a trail that appears to be nothing but sheer cliff on the side of a mountian near the Dalton Highway -- I think it was Slope Mountain.
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 flies over the Copper River.
A moose feeds in wetlands in the Delta River Valley.