Post Your Own Wildlife Photography

[crazyfingers]

Great photos!

Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Tern

Ya, It's easy to identify a bird as a tern. Which one can be tough!

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Great photos!

Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Tern

Ya, It's easy to identify a bird as a tern. Which one can be tough!

We met someone who was using the Merlin app; he did the Forster’s ID, so I’ll blame him and Merlin if it’s wrong.

 

[crazyfingers]

Great photos!

Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Tern

Ya, It's easy to identify a bird as a tern. Which one can be tough!

We met someone who was using the Merlin app; he did the Forster’s ID, so I’ll blame him and Merlin if it’s wrong.

eBird/Cornell Lab, yup. They have great resources.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Great photos!

Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Tern

Ya, It's easy to identify a bird as a tern. Which one can be tough!

We met someone who was using the Merlin app; he did the Forster’s ID, so I’ll blame him and Merlin if it’s wrong.

eBird/Cornell Lab, yup. They have great resources.

I downloaded Merlin yesterday; I'll be trying it out today at Bombay Hook, if the weather clears up.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Bombay Hook: bald eagle from extremely close range (< 20 feet), blue heron, turkeys.

 

[crazyfingers]

A few from yesterday

Spotted Turtle (Only my second photo of one)
Cormorant
Canada Goose with chicklets
Baltimore Oriole
Red wing blackbird

 

[Arctish]

I saw a small flock of Bohemian waxwings today. I didn't get any pictures (I only had my cell phone and they were pretty high up in the trees) but I found them by following the sounds of their calls:

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Donald Trump
Lee Canyon
Spring Mountain Wilderness Area
05/13/2023

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Donald Trump
Lee Canyon
Spring Mountain Wilderness Area
05/13/2023
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That beast looks way too smart.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Some recent photos mine:

Pacific Tree Frog (I think). It was very small and I almost missed it while photographing some flowers in a nearby reserve.


This ladybug was there too:
And this hummingbird was visiting our feeder on our patio:

 

[bilby]

There was a pale-headed rosella in our front yard this morning.

It's a beautiful bird, seen here photographed by the world's worst wildlife photographer...

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There was a pale-headed rosella in our front yard this morning.

It's a beautiful bird, seen here photographed by the world's worst wildlife photographer...

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I wouldn't say you're the worst. You're on target and in focus. More glass would have helped but I don't think there's anything you could really have done about the lighting situation.

 

[crazyfingers]

Some wildlife from Maine this week.

 

[crazyfingers]

I went for a bike ride this morning around a little route we have that weaves though some condos. There is a small pond. I have never seen this pond 100% covered by duckweed. I don't know what it's doing to any aquatic wildlife below. Sure makes it darker under the water I expect.

But it's a feast for the geese.

 

[Elixir]

Sphinx Moth. Cool animals!

 

[crazyfingers]

A couple rare or first for me

Only my second photo of harbor porpoise. Two of them.

A black surf shooter first for me.

 

[crazyfingers]

Bald eagle seen down at the shore earlier today.

 

[ZiprHead]

Hey, Porky's back!

 

[bilby]

These multi-hued onanist reprobates are making a mess of the back deck, which I just swept this morning.



Fortunately they've brought some mates to do a bit of cleaning up.

Though I suspect that one of them will be blamed for all the damage; In every group of vandals, there's one guy who's the pigeon.

 

[gmbteach]

On our back deck this morning. It seems quite friendly as I got quite close to be able to put a seed bar closer to it that it could get to.
It was also quite large!