Post Your Own Wildlife Photography

[Mediancat]

Oh, awesome. Never seen that species.

Here's some good ones from the last week.



Calico skimmer.



Chipping sparrow.



Spotted sandpiper.



Red admiral.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

File this under Mystery.

Yesterday around 9:30 am I looked out in the yard and saw an egg. A large white egg in the yard. Right there at the edge of the grass next to the driveway.

See the egg.



A large white egg. Nothing in sight were it came from. The egg carton in the refrigerator has a dozen in it so the kids couldn't have just put it there.




Comparing the mystery egg on the left to a grocery store large white egg on the right, the mystery egg is smaller, pointier and holding it, the shell is very thin. A slight squeeze would crack the shell and did. My daughter sealed it with wax. She thinks that it's fertilized but I don't know. In any case she now has it in her room under a light bulb. We've told her that we will not keeping a large bird as a pet but she wants to see if it hatches anyway.

By the way, I mentioned that we have a wild turkey that hangs around but the egg is too small and the wrong color to be a turkey egg.



On the other hand, this is filed under THIEF!

I posed previously that we took down an old pool. We'veput down some grass seed and two Mourning Doves are stealing my grass seed.

 

[crazyfingers]

Former wildlife. This is a mouse that at some point, got stuck in a bucket in my garage and died in there.



Snake skin - garter snake



Close up snake skin



Red tail hawk soaring over our house.

 

[Mediancat]

Terrific shot of the redtailed hawk. I so rarely seem to get a clear shot of the red tail.

Rob

 

[Mediancat]

Canada thistle bud weevil.



Dogbane beetle.



Female common yellowthroat.



And a rather sullen-looking barn swallow.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

Terrific shot of the redtailed hawk. I so rarely seem to get a clear shot of the red tail.

Rob

Thanks. The hawk was very high up and I used the 100x zoom but it had found a headwind and an updraft and was pretty much stationary for about 5 minutes.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

File this under Mystery.

Yesterday around 9:30 am I looked out in the yard and saw an egg. A large white egg in the yard. Right there at the edge of the grass next to the driveway.

See the egg.

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I may be wrong. Ducks happily lay on the ground and out in the open. Also, I think, lapwings. When/if it hatches post photos please.

 

[crazyfingers]

I may be wrong. Ducks happily lay on the ground and out in the open. Also, I think, lapwings. When/if it hatches post photos please.

It certainly could be a mallard duck egg. Though it's late in the season. It's about the right size and they do come white. I have never seen a mallard anywhere close to our property but neither have I ever found such an egg on the lawn.

 

[crazyfingers]

Dekay’s Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi)

A cat brought it in the house and I was able to catch it and put it outside.

 

[Mediancat]

A margined leatherwing beetle.

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Carpenter bee.



Barn swallow.



Eastern Kingbird.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

Standing up Rodents

Baby Bunny


Gray Squirrel

 

[crazyfingers]

March 17 I posted some photos of an Opossum. It's been hanging around the neighborhood.
https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?14891-Wildlife-Photography&p=657876&viewfull=1#post657876

I saw it again a couple days ago.



A gray squirrel was spending lots of time eating seeds that have fallen off the trees onto the garage roof. For white a while it was acting like a normal squirrel and then for a while it sat rigid and still. Perhaps 15 minutes it was flat like this. I can only guess that a hawk was flying around.

 

[Mediancat]

Red-winged blackbird.



leopard slug.



Summer azure.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

Leopard slug. Yummy!

We are at the place in Maine for the week. Photos at some point as I just have my phone hot spot and using my notebook as a dvd player. On the tablet now.

Last night at late dusk the kids were fishing at the town docks and a great glue heron glided down and landed at the end of the docks. I got a few shots by the lights of the docks lights. 1/8 sec shutter speed! Not terrible either.

This morning a million spiders hatched and crawled away.

Those photos and more later.

 

[Mediancat]

Green heron.



pearl crescent.



Horace's duskywing.



Cardinal.

Rob

 

[crazyfingers]

Excellent green Heron.

 

[4321lynx]

Excellent green Heron.

Beautifull.

 

[crazyfingers]

We got home from our place on the coast of Maine. Some nice photos.

This will be a series of 3 posts.

At the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park this looks like a piece of dead cold water coral. I did some googling and found some photos of what coral looks like in the Bay of Fundy and so I do think that it's coral.



Down at the harbor, the sun had already set when this great blue heron swooped in and landed on the far end of the dock with people still on the other end. These taken by the lights of the dock. For some reason the pictures look brighter than it really was.





A gazillion spiders all hatching at once on the railing on our deck. YUK!



Just a silly song sparrow.



I went out on the deck and saw a while tail deer across the street down the field by the ocean.







A slug on the lawn



A family of wild turkeys walked across the front yard and I got one good shot of turkey chicks.

 

[crazyfingers]

Post 2 of 3

At Run Creek, a great blue heron looking for a snack





A Herring Gull snacking on a crab



A flock of 3 Northern Gannets



Phoebe on a post



Three laughing gulls on the sea weed



A laughing gull coming in for landing



Immature Bald Eagle



Cat bird on a sign by the harbor



A mackerel

 

[crazyfingers]

Post 3 of 3

This last post is a series of shots of a Bald Eagle at the harbor.

It looks to me that the eagle flew in with a gull. The eagle drowned the gull and then if flew off and landed on a rock to eat.