Hungry Baby Blue Jays and 100+ More Amazing Wildlife Photos

A trapped raccoon waits out the high tide in the Long Island Sound.

Sea Cliff, New York

Creating a web in Tennessee.

Students at our local Montessori school in Central Florida discovered this little fellow in their school garden munching away on the leaves of their black bean plant. He was kindly relocated.

Cactus Junction Rescue in Whitehall

A mountain goat posing for my camera in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Egyptian goslings (Alopochen aegyptiacus) along the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany.

Adult larvae (caterillar) of the Polyphemus moth, spotted in Stony Kill Farm-Wappingers Falls, NY.

Don't know how this heron wound up with such a big mullet when the canal was frozen.

Mattamuskeet Lake in Hyde County, North Carolina.

While weeding at the preserve I found this little guy just hanging out.

Oakland Nature Preserve, Oakland, Florida

A two-week-old meerkat cuddles against mom at the Nashville Zoo.

Watching a doe and her twin fawns play in Rockville, Minnesota.

A peaceful scene at the beach.

Mustang Island State Park, Port Aransas, TX

A lounging timber wolf in the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, sunning itself one beautiful February afternoon.

Blue-footed boobies are one of the beautiful, brightly colored birds of the Galapagos.

A magnificent frigate bird on Genovesa Island in the Galapagos. May is the best time to see these amazing birds in full swing with their courtship and nesting activities.

This baby bird has just left he's nest and is trying out his wings.

Jasper, Tennessee

Seagull chicks beside a lake near the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.

I keep a Corucia Zebrata in my home in Queens, New York. This practically extinct lizard has free reign and a healthy environment as my pet.

Editor’s note: The Solomon Islands Skink is vulnerable to over-collection in the pet trade, and its population is also under threat from loss of habitat and local hunting for food. Trade in this skink is regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). When purchasing a pet, be sure to consider carefully the health of wild populations.

Sitting quietly on my hibiscus, two tiny tree frogs.

Tampa, Florida

New Britain, Connecticut

Austria

Mother fox in back yard of my home in Queensbury, New York.

These forest birds, also know as todies, are common in the rain forest, but hard to catch on camera.

El Yunque National Rain Forest, Puerto Rico

I'll remember the warmth of summer during the cold winter of Appleton, Wisconsin.

This bug could not be identified, other than to say it's one ugly bug.

Southern Idaho Mountains

This wild coyote ran past me while I was driving through Rocky Mountain National Forest.

I got a lucky shot of this dragonfly about to take off.

Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park, Florida

Niagara on the Lake, Niagara Falls, Canada

One of the rare occasions when we spotted our shy little Reed frog in our fish pond and managed to 'snap' him.

Johannesburg South Africa

It took nine years to finally find the owl I've been hearing all this time. It landed in the tree just 20 feet from the house. Guess it really found me.

East Peoria, Illinois

A dragonfly "landed" in the spider web next to me. I rushed in to get the camera.

Memphis, Tennessee

Napo River, Ecuador

A praying mantis gazing into the Chargin River in Ohio.

Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania

Tortuguero, Costa Rica

A common snake usually 24-42 inches in length with a fairly heavy body. These snakes have a varied diet and will eat things like fish, baby turtle, frogs, smaller snakes and small mammals. Usually active from April to October and will hibernate during the winter months.

Kill Kare State Park, Vermont

New London, Wisconsin

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Heath, Texas

So menacing, they look like bouncers to the exclusive hive colony "club." Stay away from them, they mean you no harm. New Britain, Connecticut

Sabino Canyon, Tucson, Arizona.

Monrovia, California

I was walking in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Park and spotted this beautiful Blue Heron.

On a buch plant outside of my house.

Charlotte, North Carolina

I was visiting the Grand Tetons for the summer, and we had stopped for lunch. I looked out the window and saw a crowd of people.We went out to check it out and sure enough a mom and five baby foxes were playing almost oblivious to the crowd. I am a young photographer – I'm only 11, but I still tried my best. I got this one as he looked back at me through the thickets.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

This falcon is, I'm guessing, almost a year old, since falcon mating season starts in late March. Yesterday I saw a much bigger one nearby, which had to be an adult. There are 13 breeding pairs of falcons in New York City.

Senaca Creek State Park, Maryland

Amazingly large moth or butterfly seen at the Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory. The Conservatory is such a wonderful place, that once you enter you never want to leave.

Chappaqua, New York

Moline, Illinois

Fota Wildlife Park, Cork, Ireland

Fishers, Indiana

Pretoria, South Africa

McDonough Wildlife Refuge, Parkersburg, West Virginia

December 16, 2007
Luray, Virginia

Mc Donough Wildlife Refuge, Parkersburg, West Virginia.

July 2008

Parkersburg, West Virginia

Sunderland, Massachusetts

Dane County, Wisconsin

New London, Wisconsin

Venice Beach, Florida.

Orange County, NY

March in Appleton, WI

New London, Wisconsin

St. Paul, Minnesota.

Baltimore, Maryland

Northeast Ohio.

Boxborough, Massachusetts.