So majestic.

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The adult male Tule Elk usually stuck together and left the females and juveniles to fend for themselves elsewhere on the property. While hanging out, they would often play with one another by locking their antlers and seeing who was stronger. It was all in good fun. These were taken as the Sun was setting and the sky in the area lit up in an orange hue.

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The Tule Elk of Point Reyes Station were generally in herds, so I wanted to share a photograph that captured how their community groups together.

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I think I've mentioned this before, but sometimes when taking action shots I don't actually know what the end results are going to look like. Take Douglas Squirrel 15 for example. In this photograph it looks like this Douglas' Squirrel is doing a super hero pose. If you don't know what that is, type in "super hero pose" into your favorite search engine. It basically looks similar to this Squirrel, as if it came in for a cool landing.

In reality, this Douglas' Squirrel was scratching itself with it's hind leg.  That's what it was doing when I was taking a burst of photographs.  It wasn't until I reviewed the images that I noticed this cool pose.

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Forests up in Northern California have not only seen a lot of natural fires but also prescribed fires. For those that don't know, prescribed fires are an act of setting specific areas of trees on fire in the hope that it controls natural fire. You can see the fallen tree behind this Douglas' Squirrel is all charred. Human intervention is a strange thing to me. I guess it's human nature to try and control stuff, but I worry that this also devastates wild animal populations. Their resilience is impressive, though.

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In the water, out of the water, I don't really care where critters are, but I’m going to photograph them and show you what they look like in the environment that I found them in.

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These Otters were able to find a lot of food within the short amount of time that I spent watching them. Fish and Crustaceans were on the menu.

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