Animal Pictures

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

A doe whitetail deer with frost on her back jumping over a fence during early morning.

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

A pair of double-crested cormorants.

Breath from a big bull elk shows as he exhales after bugling.

Portrait of a North American bald eagle.

A great blue heron eating a rat. Although the rat is fighting the bird by biting its bill, it was repeatedly dunked into submission then swallowed.

A bald eagle flying over ocean water.

An osprey landing on its nest.

An anhinga with a fish speared on its bill.

With head high, ears back and teeth bared, a big bull elk displays threatening behavior. This type of behavior is designed almost exclusively to intimidate rivals. Several variations are available for this photograph.

An alert whitetail buck in late evening light.

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

A whitetail deer reaches toward a licking branch.

A raccoon eating an eel caught on a tidal flat.

A large buck whitetail deer standing in high grass during a foggy morning.

An alert whitetail buck stops to look while browsing in high grass near the woods' edge. A stem of grass hangs from the corner of his mouth.

A great egret in flight with it's wings set while landing on mangroves.

A close-up portrait of a juvenile yellow-crowned night heron.

A big bull elk bugling at the edge of a pine forest.

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

Late evening light illuminates an alert buck whitetail deer and his surroundings.

A large whitetail deer buck standing in a creek bottom.

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