Post Your Own Wildlife Photography

[Rhea]

This hornet nest (they are wildlife, too!) turned out to be at face height for the rider mower on one of the apple trees. Fastest "DUCK!" of my life! For scale - it was at least twice the size of my head. We waited until full winter to take it down.

 

[Rhea]

One year, these adorable foxes were born in an old woodchuck hole, just 15 feet from the edge of the lawn. They let me take pictures day after day. They were so stinkin' adorable when they played. definitely 3 different personalities. One adventurer, "Come on, guys!" one homebody, "No. Mom said stay here. You gotta stay here. She said stay here!" and one trying to decide who to believe.

 

[Rhea]

The photography skills are not great in this one, it was dusk, the lighting was not good. I saw/heard the blue heron that I had been hearing for a couple of days and wanted a photo of it. I came out the back door in a rush trying to get quick shots before it flew away, and it was a film camera, so I couldn't adjust on the fly. It wasn't until I developed the film that I realized the red-tail hawk was sitting on the fence behind the heron, both hunting frogs, I guess.

 

[Rhea]

Twins day at the house...

 

[Rhea]

Some cuties looking for brunch in the yard, or maybe building materials, not sure.

 

[Rhea]

And baby deer season is always cute.

 

[Rhea]

And that one day when I look out the front door and see this lady ambling by...

 

[Rhea]

"No means NO! I will END YOU!"

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I forgot to post the snow geese photos:

 

[crazyfingers]

Excellent photos!!

I guess I'll get to posting some of my favorites. Many were probably in the very long topic before the changeover but some are also new.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Cool! How common is it for you to see them.

There are places here where you are guaranteed to spot a troop at dusk, when they go to bed, but the ones that come to me are the retired old gentlemen who visit occasionally.

I do love that I can raise the blind in the morning and be staring into the eyes of a 7' kangaroo. They startle at the sound and movement, prepare to hop away, realise it's only me and go back to having breakfast.

Different story if I open that door, they are not tame in any way. They are very fast and very nimble, even the arthritic old codgers. That one left just after I took the photo. I was a bit worried that he would clothesline himself on a frame thingy that I have over the gateway. He ducked it without abating his speed.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

Hurtinbuckaroo, amazement.

Rhea, you give me a dilemma. I hate foxes, but Oooooohhhhh!.

 

[Rhea]

Hurtinbuckaroo, amazement.

Agreed - those are amazing!!

Rhea, you give me a dilemma. I hate foxes, but Oooooohhhhh!.

I hear you, for a lot of people they are nuisance, but out here they have plenty of room to just be cute and not annoying. And those kits were just so much fun to watch every day. I’d just get my camera and hang out under a tree and watch them play while mom was out hunting.

 

[crazyfingers]

Here are some of my early photos 2007-2011.

Quebec on a canoe camping trip. Cubs eating the blueberries at our campsite.



Red fox by the side of the road near our place in Maine. This was taken out a car window.


One summer I shared my bedroom in Maine with two flying squirrels


Little brown bat in the house in Maine


Porcupine walking down the road on the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park. Taken out the car window.


A cooper's hawk on the fence between my front yard and the neighbor on that side.


A female wood duck fell down our chimney.


Pileated woodpacker in my back yard




Great blue heron probably in Maine though there are a lot around home too.

 

[crazyfingers]

Some more just kinda random

Snowshoe hare in Maine


Dark Eyed Junko down the road


Opossum in my front yard


Cooper's Hawk eating a bird in my front yard


Woodchuck out the car window


Raccoon down the road


Osprey landing on its nest


Osprey looking at me


Common Loon on Bubble Pond in Acadia National Park


Bald Eagle down the field from the house in Maine

 

[Rhea]

Love them! Possums are so cute,

 

[crazyfingers]

Love them! Possums are so cute,

Have another opossum. By my garage eating a dried out paper wasp nest. Yummy!

He is cute.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Love all the photos.

 

[crazyfingers]

Say stop if I post too many

A cooper's hawk in the rain in my front yard


Palm Warbler at the state park in town


Eastern Kingbird with stuff


Herring Gull(s) and I have no idea what's happening


Two Osprey calling for a parent


Red Shoulder's Hawk


American Robin in the winter enjoying red berries


A mink in a stone wall


Red Tail Hawk in a tree down the road


Dunlin Sandpiper

 

[crazyfingers]

Cooper's hawk on my lawn.


Red-bellied woodpecker in my back yard


Tree swallows at some short trails and a field a few miles away


Sea cucumber in a tide pool. It almost got away


Chipmunk probably by my driveway


Song sparrow with food for the kids


Eastern Phoebe


Gray catbird in the leaves


House sparrow on my driveway


Herring gull looking