This is the second in a short series of photo diaries of photographs from my recent trip to Alaska. This diary is meant as a brief distraction from struggles of the day. I hope you enjoy this brief journey to the physically spectacular, if politically problematic, forty-ninth state.
Fall Colors, Denali National Park
Let's start here with some of our avian friend....
Tufted Puffin
I believe this is a Common Murre. I could be wrong.
Can someone tell me, what is this pretty little seabird?
Another Tufted Puffin
Bald Eagle
Belted Kingfisher
A brief stop along the road on the Kenai Penninsula...
Fireweed, Kenai Lake
....and north to Denali National Park for the fall colors...
Along the Parks Highway south of Denali Park.
Dwarf birch and willow with spruce trees at the taiga-tundra boundary.
Birch trees turning yellow just inside the park entrance.
Tundra Color near the Savage River
And now some critters...first small....
Red Fox
Snowshoe Hare. Guides at Denali were saying that these little bunnies were at the peak of their 10 or 11 year population boom and bust cycle. This makes the coyotes, wolves and raptors quite happy.
Arctic Ground Squirrel. Looks a bit like the Da Da Daaaa! Drama Squirrel doesn't it?
... and large...
Bull Moose
Moose Cow
Caribou (no Barbie)
Dall Sheep
Brown Bear
Brown Bear with Red Salmon
And we will finish with the highest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley, Denali, The Great One at 20,320 feet above sea level...
Please feel free to post your photos and, as always, be good humans.