Animal Pictures

A whitetail deer buck pauses to look back over his shoulder.

A high-head threat: This is one of the most descriptive and amazing elk behavior pictures I've made to date. As described in "Elk of North America: Ecology and Management" by Thomas and Toweill: "In approaching an opponent in high-head threat, a cow or bull will retract the upper lip as if exposing rudimentary canines, grind the teeth and utter a soft hissing sound. In full intensity, the nose points almost upward, the eyes roll forward as if to maintain the slit of the pupil horizontally, and the tongue may protrude from the side of the mouth." Other than the nose pointing almost upward, all other aspects of this behavior are shown in this photograph.

A buck whitetail deer pauses to look while standing at the edge of an old field.

A bald eagle vocalizing (calling).

Picture of late light cast upon a whitetail deer buck standing in a beautiful setting.

A rutting buck whitetail deer tends a doe in estrus during a light snow flurry. This unusually big buck will probably take on all challengers to defend his opportunity to mate with a receptive doe. Resulting from a past fight, this buck has a minor injury to his eye.

With her tail up high, a whitetail deer doe stands alert among cattails while a buck in the background looks soberly to his left.

Two big mule deer bucks move quietly through a pinion-juniper forest.

Bugling elk scene: A huge bull elk bugles during a foggy morning, while two cows from his harem stand on a hillside above him.

A group of Florida birds feeding in a shallow marsh pond. The group includes roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, little blue herons, black-necked stilts, glossy ibis and grackles.

A big whitetail buck pauses at the edge of the woods after an early winter snowstorm.

A buck whitetail deer bedded in the woods lifts his nose testing the air for scent.

A woman holding a large chinook salmon (king salmon) caught while sport fishing the Kenai River, Alaska.

A whitetail deer buck tends a licking branch during late evening.

A large buck whitetail deer tending a bedded doe.

Wild turkeys look in various directions as a whitetail deer doe watches from the background.

A buck white tailed deer standing in tall grass.

A large buck whitetail deer walking in a forest.

Big buck whitetail deer exhibiting Flehmen sniff and lip-curling behavior.

A whitetail deer reaches toward a licking branch.

An adult osprey with a spadefish in its talons lands on a tree limb next to its juvenile offspring.

This big rutting buck is approaching a receptive doe and "foot stomping". Based on what I've seen, this foot stomping behavior appears to intimidate the doe, and she often urinates, which allows the buck to check her receptiveness (by scent). It has also been said that foot stomping releases scent clues from the inter-digital glands located between the toes of deer.

A whitetail buck pauses while browsing near the edge of a country road.

A mule deer buck standing in high desert-juniper habitat pauses for a look back.