Wildlife Pictures, Page 9
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 musk ox grazing near the Sag River in the coastal plain.
I photographed this cedar waxwing from the canoe as we passed by it.
I was at a popular spot for dipnetting, and this little rodent (a vole, I think?) hit the jackpot with an earlier angler's leftover snack.
Date AddedAug 16, 2011
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
Several mergansers leave their rock in a mess.
Seagulls rest on a gravel bar across from the fish cleaning station at O'Brien Creek, in between meals.
On my way to a favorite brook trout stream, I spotted several sandhill cranes in a Wisconsin farm field.
A lone caribou grazes on the Arctic coastal plain near Prudhoe Bay.
Dall sheep on the side of the mountain overlooking Galbraith Lake, north of Atigun Pass.
More of the same herd of musk oxen.
This cow caribou ran across the road in front of my car.