Nature Photos

A great blue heron resting near the water's edge.

Mt Saint Elias as seen from Icy Bay. At 18,008 feet, Mount Saint Elias is the fourth-highest peak in North America. It is also considered the highest coastal mountain in the world.

A bald eagle in descending flight.

A bald eagle vocalizes while descending toward the water.

A big buck whitetail deer stands in a forest with his head held high. This rutting buck had finished rubbing his antlers on a pine tree, which is pictured to the right of him.

A humpback whale breaching (leaping from the water).

A bull and cow elk on a hillside during late afternoon.

A white ibis feeding at sunset.

A female osprey in hovering flight above her nest.

Rays of sunlight breaking through the forest edge during a foggy morning.

Approaching in early morning fog, a big rutting bull elk displays a threat behavior as he walks through the grass in a frosty meadow. This behavior is often referred to as a "head-high threat" posture, where the elk orients his neck low and head high. This display is typically accompanied by flaring of the nostrils and grinding of the teeth.

A rutting whitetail buck scent-marking a licking branch, which is located above a scrape.

Florida birds, including snowy egrets, great egrets and little blue herons gathered in a shallow pond during a rainy morning.

A big buck is alert to something to his right.

A green heron perched on a willow branch.

A dock, Callis's Wharf and sunrise over Milford Haven as seen from Gwynn's Island, Virginia.

Mt. Redoubt volcano and the lower Kenai River at sunset.

A large whitetail buck deer looking over his shoulder.

An nine-point buck whitetail deer cautiously walks through a cut-over pine forest.

A bald eagle in flight with a dark sky in the background.

A double-crested cormorant with a freshly-caught fish.

A large bull elk stands adjacent to an emerald colored lake in the northern Rocky Mountains.

Alaska fireweed.

A red salmon (sockeye salmon) swimming across the shallows of an Alaskan river.