Post Your Own Wildlife Photography

[Arctish]

can we post pics others have taken?

Yes, indeed.

I heard the wood frogs for the first time this year on Wednesday night, then on Thursday it snowed a little. It's probably still to cold tonight for them to be active but they should be feeling frisky when it hits 60F this weekend.

 

[crazyfingers]

It's been a long time since I got a new lifer. But I got one today. Visiting my parents about 35 minutes away. It was a very gray, cloudy day.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

 

[Mediancat]

Oh, awesome.

Rob

 

[Arctish]

Congratulations!

 

[crazyfingers]

Thanks. I have 137 bird species photographed and ID'd for where I typically am. Massachusetts and Maine. I don't know how many more are out there. My guess is a lot more. But finding something new has been less and less frequent.

ETA, Wikipedia says 501 but 175 of them are considered rare or infrequent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Massachusetts

 

[Mediancat]

A weevil.



An eastern kingbird.



A female eastern bluebird.

Rob

 

[Mediancat]

Common yellowthroat.



Fragile forktail.



American robin, with worms.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

That robin has a family to feed.

 

[Mediancat]

Asian multicolored ladybeetle.



Blue grosbeak.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

We have a lot of wild turkeys around as I live next to about 150 acres of woods and forest. One turkey appears to have not found a mate this spring, at least so far. It hangs out mainly under the bird feeders in the next door neighbor's yard. But if wanders around. It has become pretty used to people. My kids and I end the day with a bit of Frisbee most days. This turkey just hangs around.

Today it was sitting in my front yard about 15 feet from the front door.





Usually the turkey isn't a problem. It was up on the neighbor's deck the other day trying to figure out if it could get onto the feeder. It tried and failed. two days ago I looked out and it was sitting on top of my wife's Toyota Sienna van. It flew down before I could get the camera.

Today it was a bit of a pain. The back story is that when my house was build long before I purchased it the builder illegally buried some tree stumps in the yard and filled them over. Over the last couple years they have rotted and I have some large sink-holes by the side of the yard. I've been slowly filling them with fall leaves and grass clippings. Today the turkey made a mess of the leaves filling the hole. I guess looking for bugs.


Switching gears, later today one of the cats managed to bring a young bunny in the cat flap. The cats have an enclosure that no large animals can get into and that they can't get out of but unfortunately small bunnies sometimes go in the fence and the cat got him. I got the bunny with a towel in the basement and managed to set it free. It had some scratches but I think it will be OK.


I don't know if I have told this story before but I work at home. We have two cats and when a cat comes in the cat flap I hear a "Flap, Flap" for each cat. About 8 years ago I was on a call with a client and I heard "Flap, Flap, ... Flap, Flap....Flap, Flap. Three flaps? I have two cats. I got up and saw a bunny running across the carpet! It was full grown and it appears that the cats had cornered the bunny by the cat flap. It went in and was followed by the two cats. I quickly got off the phone and captured it when it went into the bathroom.

 

[crazyfingers]

Today I had just managed to finish mowing a section of the yard before the thunder storm came. I have a 150 foot driveway on a downward slope and when it rains so hard rivers come down and then off the drain I made away from the garage.

So I got the mower into the garage and was standing there watching the rain come down and the rivers build up and saw a brown blob came riding down the river on the driveway. When it got close enough to make it out a stepped out to get it.

A baby snapping turtle. It looks a little large to have hatched this spring. Today was the warmest day of the spring so far, up around 85 and humid. Perhaps it was looking for a new pond.

After the rain we let it go in a nearby pond.

 

[Arctish]

Very cool turtle pic! And the rescued bunny one, too.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

This little bit of fluff was making quite a racket. Did he think the trash was some great find?

 

[crazyfingers]

A rodent Day

We went to Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA



And saw these two Groundhogs.





At Home a yard bunny.



Chipmunk finding seeds from the maple tree on the driveway.




In terms of birds at a nearby pond,

Mute swan with chicks



Red-wing blackbird



I think that this is a red-wing blackbird chick

 

[Mediancat]

Went to Assateague Island on MD's eastern shore for a couple of days.



Great egret.



Black-bellied plover.



Grapeleaf skeletonizer.



Greater yellowlegs.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

I went to one of my old birding places that I had not visited for perhaps a year. It's best in the spring in the morning.

I didn't get anything new or spectacular but in two hours out I don't think that I've ever chalked up so many species. Seventeen with three both male and female.

List

Brown Headed Cowbird
Tree Swallow
White breasted Nuthatch
Blue Jay
Goldfinch
Red Tail Hawk
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Chipping sparrow
Mourning Dove
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird (male and female)
Estern Phoebe
Common Grackle (male and female)
Song Sparrow
Yellow warbler
gray Catbird
Red Wing blackbird (male and female)


Brown headed Catbird


Chipping sparrow


Ruby Throated Hummingbird


Red Tail Hawk


Goldfinch


Blue jay


Nuthatch


Tree swallow with fluff


Tree Swallow


Mourning dove

End page 1 of 2

 

[crazyfingers]

American Robin


Male Grackle


Male red wing blackbird


Catbird


Yellow warbler


Song sparrow


Female Grackle


Phoebe


Female bluebird


Male bluebird

page 2 or 2. I skipped the female red wing blackbird

 

[crazyfingers]

Today a Northern Flicker on the driveway. Flickers are woodpeckers that don't behave like woodpeckers. They scrounge for bugs on the ground mostly. They have almost exactly the same build as a red-bellied woodpecker but the colors and behaviors are totally different.


And an Eastern Kingbird in a tree down at the pond.

 

[Mediancat]

Northern water snake.



Black saddlebags.



Riby-throated hummingbird.



Zabulon skipper.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

We got rid of a leaking wading pool in the back ward and under it, over the tarp was a ring neck snake. The are nocturnal and this is the first time I have seen one much less photographed.