It is time to start the May 2007 Photo contest.

The theme for this month's contest is "Wildlife". Post your best photos of BWCA or Quetico Wildlife. Wildlife does not include late night fire pit festivities.

Monthly Category: Wildlife Photos BWCA or Quetico

Rules:
- You must be signed in as a member with a valid email address in your profile to enter (or win).
- You can only enter one photo per monthly contest. You can enter the same photo if it did not win in a previous month.
- You must be the photographer of the photo.
- Photos are entered in the contest by making a reply posting to this message and using the "Add a photo to this message" link during composition. This will allow you to upload a photo from your computer to the contest or allow you to select a photo which you have already loaded into your photo gallery on this site. If you want to enter your photo in another way, please contact us.
- Please describe in the message where the picture is from.
- Judging will be done by the www.bwca.com staff and moderators.
- A member may win once per year.
- Photos must be posted to this message by 11:59pm on May 31st.

- Photos must be in jpg or gif format to be uploaded to the site. Contact me if you have something in a different format or are having problems uploading to the site.

Thank you for participating!

Adam

P20070501

"A long, tough winter is over at Boot Lake" (May, 2006) Jan

This guy had the right idea on Gibson Lake...We also got several shots of 3 different wolves on this trip but were too far away to be used for contest.

Burntside Bullwinkle
Burntside Lake, Quetico - June 2006

damnit! ive never seen a bull! :( Jan nice pic

Tons of "Wildlife" at Prairie Portage.

Nice pic Snake charmer. Would have liked to seen that moose in September. Good luck this year. Izzy

We found this Loon on Lake Four - August 2006

"Pesky lil Red"

Here's a picture of Bullwinkle taken from the campsite on the western side of Vernon Lake in 1997. He was eating grass in the shallow water next to our camp.

dragonfly morphing on Gore-tex

Just can't follow the guidlines can ya Bromel

BWCA or Quetico wildlife

I don't care about a baracuda either. I never saw one in the BWCA. Isn't what this forum is for ? Izzy

Here is a mother loon and her chick taken on lake four last summer. It's kinda blurry since it was raining. Also since I took it point and shoot it's very small. :(

That photo is a classic, LT!

Barley, That is probably the grosest...and at the same time Coolest photo I have ever seen. Very Alien meets Predator. Nice composition too.

I am pretty sure LTs photo is that of the "Lac" Ness monster. Many a visitor has returned from the Lac La Croix with stories of a sighting a large humped beast. Old Nessycroix, as the Native Americans have called it, only emerges for seconds at a time, and this is indeed a rare photo of said prehistoric beast.

Just a question.... where do you guys see this monster in my picture? EDIT Is this it I went back and cropped the photo.

Sorry L.T., but I think a better quetion is where do you see a loon?

This mink stole my walleye dinner while I waited out a short rain storm in my tent

Mama Loon with babies hitchin' a ride. Taken on Birch, July 05. We were just sit quietly fishing and they swam by.

Wildlife photos have never been my strong suit. Here's Mr Beaver eating on Crab Lake, September 2006.

This pic was taken in May on a stream flowing near Brent Lake in the Q by my wife.

I believe it might be a Boreal Chorus Frog, but hard to tell from limited amount showing in the pic. Any other guesses?

Crooked Lake Swimming Bear


Saw this guy on crooked lake -- the photo's zoomed in quite a bit.. I was torn between keeping my distance and paddling closer for a better shot! What's more, the bear was swimming from an island where we'd camped the previous year...

Otter on Fourtown...

Frog lunch on small beach at campsite on Kawishiwi River 2006

Loon at sunset on Sagus Lake - July 2006

Eagleson that is an awesome photo op!

Female Loon on the nest on Disappointment, male was nearby keeping us away!

Bruce

LT went to the Bannock School of Photography. I used to be a door-to-door camera salesman selling cameras in small Iowa communities so their schools could start photography clubs. :-)

Oh you got trouble my friends
Right here in River City
and that starts with "T"
and rhymes with "C"
which stands for camera!

:-) :-) :-)

Yhea I realized the other day that I have a better photo I could have entered. D@&^ It. I'll share it but I guess it can't count. Oh well.

Its a loon, right?....Just kidding. Cool shot, interesting.

ok bannock.....im officially dense now. i dont get it. :/ Jan

From the musical, "The Music Man" .... I'm such a theatre nerd ....

Twenty minutes after putting in at Moose River #16 we coasted by this whitetail. It was obviously terrified that we were so close--it almost stopped chewing its breakfast as we went by.

One loon's wild life on Red Rock Lake--smoke and a few flames from the 2005 Alpine Lake fire are in the background.

Frog on Pagami Lake, June 2005.

Bannock Ever been to Mason (river) City???? Sorrry for hijack on this thread, but just had to let you know I know muscials too.. Trombones 76 of 'um

Woodpecker

We found this critter eating his midnight snack.

Otter (probably a mink) at camp site (north most of lower basswood falls group, July 2006)

Canoe Dude,

Dont mean to be a pain, isn't that a picture of a mink?

yup that is Mr. Mink all right

cow moose taken out of isabella.

I am not an expert, but I think that is a mink or an ermin. Not an otter.

Peace out

Mercery Moris

Loon on the shore of Wind Bay (Basswood Lake).

Maybe its a mink, I had a couple people look at it, muskrat, mink, otter are all things people have said. My dad said it was probably an otter, anyway here are some more pics of its backside, and some happy turtles we saw on the same trip

My fall/winter hobby is trapping, i am 100% sure it is a mink.

Isabella Creek. 6/06

why we fish
evening release morning wake

Taken on back bay of Basswood Lake. After all the clouds on Memorial Day weekend, you can guess how much we appreciated this sunset.

Buckfever,

What kind of camera were you using? The color in those photos is outstanding!

Moose cow and calf at Heritage Lake, 2006.

i took this photo on Ensign lake on May 22 2007... i call it "Shelling in Da-Sun"

Ham Lake fire from Disappointment Lake about 27 miles away 5-10-07

Amazing picture.

I wept like a wee school girl that day.

LIS North, last week. After this photo the moose continued to wade out into the river. When he got about 20 feet away I figured it was time to start back padddling.

Bald Eagle Lake Bald Eagle, June 2005.

In a close vote, Grandma L the winner of the May photo contest!

The bonus hat give away goes to Ho Ho.

The winning trip report is by solodad.

Thanks to all that shared their entries.

Adam