16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Bear with Salmon
The US Forest Service maintains a viewing platform and hiking trail along Anan Creek in Alaska. If you are lucky enough to secure one of the 60 daily permits, you can spend half a day watching bears feeding on salmon and bald eagles in flight. The viewing platform has a water-level blind where this photo was taken. This bear had just snatched the salmon from the fast flowing stream and was headed to dry ground to feed.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 07.2017 |
Date Uploaded: | 06.2018 |
Photo Location: | Near Wrangell Alaska, Alaska, United States of America |
Camera: | NIKON D500 |
Copyright: | © Daniel S Japha |