Post a wildlife photo that YOU took.

[Ladyhawk]

I think I'll start with this photo I took of a humpback whale:

[ET Awful]

1. The only ones I have right now are:

Both aren't really "in the wild" but are not in a zoo either. They're from the Public Gardens in Boston.

[Ladyhawk]

8. Beautiful. :)

Looks like a female mallard and a swan, eh? Sounds wild enough to me. The pond at the local college attracts all kinds of water fowl. I consider them to be wild.

Very nicely done! I wish I had access to a really good camera. :)

[ET Awful]

10. Those were taken with my old Olympus digital that I just sold

It was a very nice camera, just not high enough resolution for doing large prints.

I halfway wish I'd kept it around, but if I had I couldn't have afforded the new one.

[BrklynLiberal]

39. Magnificent pics.

[Longgrain]

2. I'm not sure if this counts as wildlife, but a squirrel on the Boston

Commons...

[Ladyhawk]

9. Great detail. :)

I think I can see some enlarged mammary glands. Perhaps this squirrel was a mama?

[Longgrain]

14. I think so too, I've seen several up close that I've noticed...

exposed nipples on. I wouldn't be surprised.

[ET Awful]

13. The squirrells on the Common are so cool, they're almost totally

unafraid of people, they'll come right up and eat out of your hands :).

[Longgrain]

18. I've spent hours watching them and drawing them, back

when I was an Art Student in Boston...I wouldn't pet one tho...

Here's another pic...

[ET Awful]

20. I buy bags of nuts from the vendors and feed them to the

squirrells instead of eating them myself :).

I had one squirrel that followed me around the commons getting handouts for about an hour one day :)

[intheflow]

24. That's a great shot!

A squirrel close-up worthy of National Geographic. :hi:

[Longgrain]

28. I cheated by taking it on the Common, where as ET Awful

already noted, all you need is food and the squirrels will practically jump on your lap.

[intheflow]

37. I remember those Common squirrels well

back in my Emerson College days. It's cute enough in still photography, but try spreading out a blanket and having a picnic. It's like Hitchcock's The Birds but with rodents. :scared:

[RagingInMiami]

58. Nice shot, what kind of lens were you using?

[newsguyatl]

3. not really wildlife, but here're some photos i took

just a few days ago on my trip to cali

on highway 1, about 65 miles south of san fran:


a vineyard in napa valley:


the beautiful goldengate bridge from afar:

[Ladyhawk]

12. I LOVE Highway 1.

I've traveled nearly the whole thing before and it's just lovely. Thanks for the great pics. :)

[redsoxliberal]

23. PCH

[Blue_In_AK]

Highway 1 rocks.

We're going to be down there again in about 10 days. Woo-hoo!! More pictures to post.

[BrklynLiberal]

41. Breathtaking.....

[Deja Q]

4. Well,

[Ladyhawk]

15. African cichlid? Is it yours? :)

LOL @ the whitetail deer trio! Hehe. But don't laugh at the smaller buck. He didn't choose his sexuality. :) ;)

[Deja Q]

21. The deer wasn't mine, fortunately. But, yes, the fish is

my own. An African Cichlid: A Cobalt Blue Cichlid. (the scientific name is a bit too complex for my mind to remember. :-( )

I know, I did rather bend the rules a little (I never break them!) as the fish isn't mine, but he is wild. Even have some babies thanks to him. Only one survived and I think that one's a male too. (this should get interesting, it's the aquatic version of Genesis... Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel. One kills the other and then must surely bonk Eve or else no other humans get made, hehe...)

I don't get out much, but I do have wildlife pics on my website:

[Ladyhawk]

34. ROTFL!!!

Too funny!!! I'll have to check out your site when I don't feel so muddle-headed. I should check my blood glucose.

[BrklynLiberal]

43. Nice pics at your site!

[Ladyhawk]

63. Those are great pics of the Senegal parrot.

That other parrot is either a green-cheeked or maroon-bellied conure. I always had trouble telling the difference...very subtle.

Great pileated woodpecker, too!

[Deja Q]

70. Thanks!

:-)

[intheflow]

33. Those are awesome fish shots!

The top one, especially. Great detail, great color. How'd you take it? I've never even tried fish because I figured the flash would reflect off the tank back at me and blanche out the picture.

And the deer photo is hysterical. I hope the gay one didn't get his ass kicked by the straight one afterwards. Antlers! <shudder!>

[Ladyhawk]

40. Yeah, how did you get those shots?

Did you light the aquarium so much that flash wasn't needed?

[DS1]

5. Throw your hands up in tha EH-Air!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. How about a moose and an eagle?

[ET Awful]

16. Wow. Those are both very nice. That eagle is gorgeous.

:)

[Ladyhawk]

17. Wow! That's great!

I've never seen a moose in the wild and bald eagles only from afar. Where did you take the eagle pic? Alaska?

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Yes, the eagle picture was taken in Homer, Alaska,

which is about 225 miles south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula. The eagles flock there in the winter by the hundreds. The moose was about a mile from my house...I took the picture out of the car window.

[Ladyhawk]

35. Fantastic. :)

I've heard bald eagles are very, very common in Alaska. That's why I guessed that state. :) Also, the coastline looked Alaskan...whatever that means.

That is a great photo!

[Blue_In_AK]

42. No white sands and warm beaches here, that's for sure. :-)

[BrklynLiberal]

44. National Geographic quality....

[Jessica]

7. This is as wild as my photography gets ...

[intheflow]

11. Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park

[phusion]

36. Beautiful...

Was that recent? Not much snow up there...

Beautiful animals.

[intheflow]

47. It was taken last June.

These were the two best shots that I scanned in, but there was a whole herd of them, including mamas and little calfs. The males stood off a bit, looking regal like these two. The females and calfs were laying in the field, leisurely nibbling on the yellow flowers. :)

They were skittery, though, and I wasn't able to get any good shots of them even with the telephoto. :(

[benburch]

19. Pelicans!

[Ladyhawk]

25. Lotsa pelicans. :)

And of course, the obligatory pelican limerick...ahem:

What a wonderful bird is the pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I don't see how in the helican.

-Unknown (at least to me)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

67. The poet is Ogden Nash! Wonderful limerick, BTW!!

very appropriate, IMHO...

[Ladyhawk]

49. I see your brown pelicans...

...and raise you a brown pelican:



and some harbor seals, too:

[redsoxliberal]

22. a chimp and some other animals at the zoo in washington

[RevolutionaryActs]

26. I'll post a pic my brother took.

This is from my brother and his girlfriend's trip to Oregon last November. They came across this squid on the beach, it was about 2 1/2 feet long.

[Longgrain]

48. For some reason, that almost looks like a painting.

Tho I'm not sure why.

[Ladyhawk]

50. Wow...that's a nice pic. It must be from a pretty large species.

I'm no good with squid species...it could be architeuthis for all I know. ;)

[Ladyhawk]

29. Here's a cetacean roundup:

Humpback whale:





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Pacific white-sided dolphin:





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Orca:



In the last pic, the orca is swallowing the yearling sea lion it just caught. This was a transient, male, sub-adult killer whale, traveling with a male companion about the same age.

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Whoops, forgot one...long-beaked common dolphins:

[phusion]

30. Gecko

Human wildlife on the left, non-human on the wall.

[Mr. McD]

31. At Big Sur

[Ladyhawk]

51. Some egrets...and is that a blue heron in the background? n/t

[Ladyhawk]

32. I didn't take the following pics, but I was standing next to the person...

...who did:





This is a really large Pacific black-tail buck. There were seven other bucks in the area, all vying for the attention of a doe in heat. (My mother has a better camera...sniff.)

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Gray fox:



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Mountain lion:





The last one is my hand neck to a lion track in the snow.

[BrklynLiberal]

38. I am going to post some pictures that I have taken out my kitchen window

where I have a bird feeder. It entertains my cats as well as myself

Here is a male cardinal that stays all winter.


Here is my cat, Cassie, doing some bird watching.


Sometimes the bird feeder attracts wildlife other than birds.


and again..


Sometimes I will put birdseed on the wall of my porch as well




and that will also attract some squirrels.

[Ladyhawk]

53. Those are awesome.

I laughed out loud at the cat pic and the upside-down squirrel. :) The cardinal picture is first class. We don't have cardinals where I live, but my bird watching book says they can be occasional visitors to Southern California. :shrug: I live in Northern California, so I wouldn't know. Your cardinal is redder than the house. :)

The other guy looks like either a purple or house finch. I'm not sure which. I'd have to look him up.

[BrklynLiberal]

57. We get lots of purple finches here...

The funniest bit was coming into my kitchen and seeing a cat looking INTO my window. I almost jumped out of my skin. I cetainly never expected that. It is my neighbor's cat. Guess she was curious about all the activity.

[Ladyhawk]

45. Underwater pics

I done caught me a crawdad...heeeulp!



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Rainbow trout and log:



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You should see my lure collection from last summer. :) I had to dive to get them. I'm not into fishing...maybe I should sell them back to the fishermen who lost them. :D

[Lone_Star_Dem]

46. The elusive sand lion

Pelican



And a butterfly photo. Not exactly wildlife but pretty.

[RagingInMiami]

52. In the everglades on the outskirts of Miami

[Ladyhawk]

55. Nice gator...how big was he?

Also, nice sig line...makes you think.

[RagingInMiami]

56. He was medium sized judging by the size of his head

I would guess about six feet maybe, but it's hard to tell because I never got to see his whole body.

About the sig line: I believe the last two elections were stolen, so by the repubs destroying democracy, they are making peaceful revolution impossible.

Now if they keep doing that and the masses ever wake up and smell the coffee, that is when we'll take to the streets.

[Ladyhawk]

59. OT: I hope not, but it might be impossible to stop it. :(

I keep thinking about a hot civil war and wondering whether I could condone it...or even participate. I just don't know. I'm not Gandhi- or MLK Jr.-like. I don't think I'm a pacifist, but I see how most of America's wars have sewn the seeds of the next war. I wouldn't want to become violent and have that violence bite me in the ass.

Still, they are making it difficult, aren't they?

The only alternative I can think of is a massive strike of sorts. :shrug:

[Scout]

54. from Isle Royale National Park

one of the red foxes



and a luna moth that we saw outside our room as were checking out


this moth appeared on the outside of our window the previous night. it freaked me right out!

[Ladyhawk]

61. I love foxes. :)

Very cool pictures.

[Fifth of Five]

60. Wow! You guys are good

This is the only one I've got in digital format - It was a little too windy and overcast to get this butterfly with my snapshot camera, but it's not too bad.

[Ladyhawk]

62. Stunning detail; great sense of composition.

Once again, I wish for a better camera! :D

Excellent picture.

[Mr. McD]

64. In Monterey bay

on edit: add south of Monterey

[Scooter24]

65. A caribbean sunset...

[Ladyhawk]

66. Anyone else want to contribute? I was enjoying this. :) n/t

[RetroLounge]

68. I took this in my brother's back yard...

RL

[yellowdogintexas]

69. a couple of mine......

moth on my caladiums in front of my house


elk in Yellowstone