Alaska portrait: black bear with a salmon, watched by a bald eagle

Humpback whale

An ocean geyser? Or a humpback?

Humpback whale in Glacier Bay

Combined

South Seward Glacier -- for scale, there is a 100' long boat about ⅓ in from the right

Sea lions near the glacier face

Two sea lions give a sense of scale to this jumbo ice float

Classical glacier valley

Bald Eagle

Immature bald eagles; it takes five years for a full set of adult feather with the white head

Bald eagle chicks, working on becoming flight ready

Bald Eagle, Herring Cove, Ketchikan, Alaska

Bald Eagle's nest: Dad flying, mom watching the two chicks on the left side of the image

Young bald eagle nestling, who has never flown. It crept out on this branch; mom flew by and whispered something. It made one last check as if to ask "clear for take-off?" ...

and launched into the air. Tens seconds later it landed in a nearby tree with mom's approving gaze.

"That black bear is getting close"

Black bear unsuccessfully fishing for the pink salmon

Coastal Brown Bear

Pink Salmon run, downtown Ketchikan

Male salmon, looking for eggs to fertilize

Kingfisher with more than it can chew

An immature puffin landed on the bare rock face, failed to obtain traction, slide 15 feet down, and finally aborted the landing in the lower right of this photo

Gull with three chicks

Porcupine, which is as slow moving as a sloth

Bad feather day in the rain

Female Smart Car, Ketchikan

Glacier Bay National Park