Nature Photos

A great blue heron perched on a snag in a shallow lake.

A big whitetail buck deer looking up at a tree branch. This buck is preparing to distribute scent on a licking branch, which is a behavior that typically occurs after tending a ground scrape.

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

A great blue heron with a freshly-caught Florida swamp rat in its beak.

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

A whitetail deer buck.

A tricolored heron perched on a backwater snag.

A close-up photo of a whitetail deer buck lip curling (Flehmen response), which is a behavior often exhibited by rutting bucks encountering a doe that may be in estrous. This facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ.

A Rio Grande cottonwood tree during autumn, New Mexico.

A great egret flying.

A buck whitetail deer stands alert during a rainstorm.

A whitetail deer buck in a pine forest inspects a holly tree licking branch. Licking branches are commonly found above ground scrapes, upon which bucks and does urinate during the breeding season (the rut).

A whitetail deer doe admires an eight point buck.

A large whitetail deer buck standing in a creek bottom.

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

An enormous calving glacier. Believe it or not, the wave coming off the face of this glacier was 75-100 feet tall. The gulls in the foreground are at least 1/4 mile away from this event.

A big whitetail buck and his doe stand alert after an early winter snowfall.

A little blue heron perched on a snag in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida.

A bear holding its paw to its nose (Alaska brown bear).

A big buck whitetail deer standing in woods exhibiting Flehmen sniff and lip-curling behavior.

A whitetail deer buck standing on a grassy ridge.

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

A great blue heron in Everglades National Park.

A whitetail deer reaches toward a licking branch.