June 5, 2011 River Otter in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
River Otter
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, 500 f4 & 1.4x III, 1/2000 sec, f6.7, ISO 320
Image taken on June 4, 2011.
I had an incredible encounter with a river otter yesterday morning in Yellowstone National Park. I spotted it out on the ice on Yellowstone Lake while photographing a lesser scaup pair, then got into position to photograph it when it got closer to the shore. In the image above, it's standing on ice that had formed the previous night with some older ice and snow in the background.
