In just about the same spot that I photographed the bear last Friday, I captured this wild turkey today. There were actually about twelve of them roaming the backyard — a mother and her almost grown chicks. I’m still waiting for the male with open tail feathers to pay a visit. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 800, f/5.6 at 1/50th of a second.

This guy made an appearance in our backyard on Friday evening. Our yard slopes up in the back and catches the last rays of the sun, just a bit of which were hitting his nose and the surrounding foliage. He took a quick look our way before disappearing into the forest. I’m still waiting for him, or one of his friends, to show the courtesy of walking through my camera trap. Maybe tomorrow. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/60th of a second.

As I’ve mentioned before, the silver fox is actually just a black variant of the red fox. There’s also a cross fox, which is part reddish and part blackish. The “silver” fox name comes from the white (silverish) tips to the fur that you can see on the in-focus part of this guy’s face. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 400, f/5.6 at 1/50th of a second.

When the tide recedes, ochre sea stars are a common sight along the shoreline in Olympic National Park in Washington state. They come in varying hues of purples and orange, clinging to the volcanic rock. A misty day combined with a slow shutter speed added to the atmosphere of this image captured at Rialto Beach. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 200, f/20 at 8 seconds.

You can see just how much bighorn lambs blend in with their surroundings in Badlands National Park. Bad for any would-be predators. Very good for the lambs. These two were having a good old time chasing each other up and down the sides of these eroded buttes, the dominant landscape feature in the park. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/320th of a second.

Like black bears, brown bears can vary in color. This young male had a lighter coat than any of the other bears we saw at Lake Clark — more of a blondish brown. He was doing a bit of a dance as we drove past on our way back to the lodge. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/1000th of a second.

Haven’t seen a single fox in my area of Connecticut this summer. At least not yet. But here’s one hunting for voles along the treeline in Lake Clark National Park in Alaska that I photographed a few years ago. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 250mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/640th of a second.

I was getting an interesting mix of fog and late day sun on this particular visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in California. The perfect time to go wide and capture more of the landscape. That’s a male tule elk lit up by the sun. Tule elk are the smallest subspecies of elk. A small population of them live at Point Reyes just north of San Francisco. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 280mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/320th of a second.