Animal Pictures

Does standing in the open as the first snow of winter falls.

A mule deer buck bedded but remaining alert. Its juniper forest surrounds provide protection from the elements but somewhat limit visibility.

A baby seal (harbor seal pup) and mother on an iceberg.

A big mule deer buck stands alert next to a pinion tree in a grassy meadow.

A rutting buck whitetail deer follows a doe through a pine forest. The doe is either in or nearly in estrus.

Uncertain about noise created by the camera, a buck whitetail deer tilts his head in an unusual manner.

A tricolored heron perched on a backwater snag.

A mule deer buck standing in the juniper zone of Colorado mountains.

Three bald eagles perched on driftwood limbs with mountains in the background.

A large whitetail deer buck standing in a creek bottom.

This whitetail buck is rubbing the branches of a pine tree following licking branch behavior. With this rutting behavior, scent is deposited from glands in the deer's forehead thus making his presence known to others.

A mule deer doe with a floppy ear looks quizzically toward the photographer.

A group whitetail does in a field during a foggy morning, with large oak trees and a mountain in the background.

A big whitetail buck is lit by the golden glow of late evening sunlight.

A big whitetail buck examines a rubbing tree while walking through the woods.

A big whitetail buck walks through a mixed conifer-hardwood forest.

A baby moose (moose calf) standing in fireweed wildflowers.

An Alaskan moose among willows showing autumn colors.

An Alaska rainbow trout.

A buck whitetail deer bounding through tall vegetation.

A bald eagle in banking flight (making a hard right turn).

A great egret flying.

A female osprey in hovering flight above her nest.

A large whitetail buck licking a branch while tending a scrape.