Favorites of 2019

Northern Cardinal

Cardinal perched in a light snowfall. Pennsylvania, February 2019

Rocky Mountain Mule Deer

A pair of Mule Deer at the peak of their mating season, against a backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

Winter Whitetail

An exceptionally large Whitetail buck pauses for a moment in a winter wonderland!

Black-billed Magpie

Sunlight highlights this Magpie's iridescent plumage as it takes wing.

Eastern Cottontail

A Cottontail Rabbit peeks from its burrow shortly after an unlikely October snowfall.

Mountain Whitetail!

A mature Whitetail buck poses against the Rocky Mountains.

Meadow Muley

This cute Mule Deer fawn with a floppy right ear is comfortably bedded in a native shortgrass prairie.

Canada Goose

This big honker preens her plumage amidst a heavy snowfall.

Whitetail Buck

This big-bodied, dominant Whitetail buck pauses for a moment on the skyline, in the earliest morning light before the sun came up.

Whitetail buck at a scrape

This mature Whitetail works the licking branch of a well-used scrape during an autumn snowfall.

Mountain Goat Pair

This image shows the difference between the female's thin horns and the thicker, heavier horns of the male.

Eastern Collared Lizard, environmental portrait

Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma

Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

Although at first glance one might thing this is a Chipmunk, it is not! It is actually a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, which is quite a bit larger than a Chipmunk. The other way to tell the difference is to look at the face ..... all Chipmunks have stripes on their face, while the G-mGS does not.

Mallard Drake

This brilliant Mallard drake comes in to land against the backdrop of a beautiful Maryland sky.

American Pika

Cascade Mountains, Washington state

Whitetail Buck sporting a drop tine!

Colorado

Evening rimlight on a fine young Whitetail Buck

Colorado

Prairie Rattlesnake coils in a defensive posture

Flathead Indian Reservation, western Montana

Harbor Seal sunbathes on the beach at Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Surf Scoter drake

This drake Surf Scoter is sporting his brilliant breeding colors as he winters off the jetty at Barnegat, New Jersey

Harlequin Duck on Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Red-bellied Woodpecker

A drake Wigeon preens his tailfeathers

Choptank River, Maryland