A prairie rattlesnake coils into striking position, flicking its forked tongue in and out on a sunny, dry hillside outside of Livingston, Montana.
Autumn leaves float in Ashley Creek in Kalispell on Oct. 22, 2022.
The ridge line to the summit of Mount Cannon in Glacier National Park on June 13, 2023.
An osprey returns to the nest with dinner fresh from the Yellowstone River in Livingston, Montana's Miles Park.
Emigrant Peak sleeps beneath a blanket of snow and low clouds in Montana's Paradise Valley on Nov. 4, 2017.
A wolf slinks through the grass near the Inside North Fork in Glacier National Park on July 30, 2022.
Ocean-esque waves thunder onto the shores of Woods Bay on Flathead Lake as high winds battered Montana on March 28, 2021.
A painted turtle hides inside its shell near Ashley Creek west of Kalispell on May 30, 2020. It is North American’s most widely distributed native turtle. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon
A climber on the ridge to the summit of Mount Gould in Glacier National Park on Sept. 9, 2023.
Bighorn sheep munch on glacier lilies on Logan Pass in beneath Reynolds Mountain in Glacier National Park on June 13, 2023.
Sinopah Mountain is reflected in Two Medicine Lake on a calm morning in Glacier National Park on Oct. 15, 2022.
A whitebark pine on a snowy slope above Appistoki Creek in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park on Nov. 13, 2022.
A rainbow trout swims through a stream in the Marion area on June 11, 2023
A female Merlin, a species of falcon, tears into her freshly-dispatched pigeon on the side walk in front of the Murray Hotel on Monday evening. Merlins, due the grayish color of the males, are sometimes
referred to as pigeon hawks, said retired Yellowstone National Park Ornithologist Terry McEneaney.
Merlins' diets consist primarily of other birds, which the pluck from midair with their powerful talons in high-speed surprise attacks.
An aerial view about 100 feet over ice formations on McGregor Lake outside of Marion on March 15, 2020. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon
Evening sunlight casts the shadow of a honeybee on the petals of poppy flower in Somers, Montana on June 12, 2019.
A clutch of Canada goose eggs awaits hatching in a feathery nest on the shores of Foys Lake in Kalispell on May 3, 2019.