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Ron Niebrugge Alaska, Katmai, Photos, Travel 1 Comment

A Brown bear, Katmai National Park, Alaska.

We had particularly good success photographing brown bears chasing salmon this August along the Katmai National Park Coast. I’ll keep sharing different versions of this action from time to time this fall.

Gray Fox vs. Rattlesnake

Ron Niebrugge Arizona, Photos, Travel, Tucson 1 Comment

Did another trail camera photo dump from the @desertphotoretreat Always fun to see what animals share the water hole. I knew a rattle snake was hanging around since I found a shedded skin a couple of week earlier. However, a snake has never shown up in the camera – probably because they are cold blooded. The reason this one showed was thanks to the gray fox.

You can see they interacted for a few minutes. At one point the snake curled up and raised its head while facing the fox. Ultimately it appears they were both just after a drink and in the last photo you can see the fox had no interest in the snake.

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Keeping Watch

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A Brown or Grizzly Bear, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Keeping a close eye on the meadow. Too bad that field of lupine around the cub wasn’t in bloom. The cold, wet summer wasn’t good for some of the wildflowers.

Is it safe mom?

Ron Niebrugge Alaska, Lake Clark, Photos, Travel 2 Comments

A Brown or Grizzly Bear, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Is is safe mom? What is interesting, it can be challenging to capture bears actually looking towards the camera. The bears at the places I visit pretty much ignore humans except maybe for brief moments like with yesterday’s cub. When we do get moments like in this photo, it almost always means there are other bears in the meadow behind us that have the bears attention. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

Puffin

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Horned puffin, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.

We had great puffin on both my Bear and Puffin photo tours. Not too many years ago, a photo like this would be very challenging. That is sure changed with modern focus tracking on today’s mirror-less cameras. Horned puffin, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.