animals

Drove by this beautiful horse yesterday, stopped and grabbed a couple photos. He came right towards me for a brief moment while i was snapping shots.

Spotted this fellow while out for a drive yesterday. Couldn't get any shots with his feet showing as they were in grass most of the time.

I got lucky and spotted this Osprey in his nest, and he gave me some great shots when he decided to stretch out his wings. Here's a couple i processed so far.

Sometimes keeping your gear in the car pays off. I spotted this guy in a cemetery on my way home from work and zipped in and starting taking shots. BTW, for those that are looking at the exif and want to know how my 70-200mm is reporting 400mm I was using a 2x teleconverter.

RS Hawk

Crow of sorts, a bit angry due to the Corvus family not having a tread of their own, so here it is. A tread to post up your pictures of the common and uncommon crows of all sorts.

Hi, I wanted to write this for a week but life kept me busy. I have wanted to do this myself for a while but never got to (so much for taking my own advice) but I happened on this event twice in 6 years: When farmers cut down the fields of grass to be used as hay for their farms it will reveal...

Caught this guy at our birdbath this morning .... Handheld / heavy crop / through a very dirty dual-pane window.

Blue Jay came for a visit

I wanted to make this post for some time but I haven't found what this bird is until very recently: Called Little Grebe or Dudchick (Tachybaptus ruficollis), it's a very small aquatic bird that I never seen until this spring. They are quite common in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Russia. But...

My wife and daughter recently returned from a 2-week safari. These are my daughter's images, posted with permission. Very pleased with the quality, proof that the latest and greatest gear is unnecessary. Kind of proud of her, she did a good job!

I was lucky enough to catch a family of swans out for a swim.

White Faced Ibis with new chick

I was asked to start a thread to show the water feature I installed in my yard. We relocated closer to the Texas coast in 2022 and there was an area under some trees to do this. Keep in mind, along the coast there are many birding destinations and many have only small water features that attract...

Stallion living free in Alberta.

Couple shots of a Northern Jacana.

A photograph of a juvenile Whooping Crane I took on January 22, 2018 was chosen to be included on the Ebird site and on the Merlin app. I was shooting Canon at the time. https://ebird.org/species/whocra

Harris Hawk with falconer

Just checking to see how many weeks of winter,,,,,,,,,,,,LOL

My first post. On POTN I used the username Sixtgp. Posted a lot in the birds forums. Brown Pelican, SF Bay

I put some of these in another thread, but here's my full series. Getting dark now, so not likely any more today.

Kachemak Bay, Alaska Olympus EM1ii and 300 Pro

They are migrating for the winter season here in Texas

Six male Hooded Mergansers and one female were having fun a couple of days ago playing the "mating game." This particular shot shows just three males escorting the gal (the other three were out of camera range) and clearly they were enjoying themselves. So was she, as evidenced by the glint in...

SOOC / handheld / heavy crop

I'd been told there were a couple albinos hanging out in a state park about 200 miles from me so decided to go for a drive today and hope for the best.

While hiking out on Mt Rainier earlier this year, I had the most amazing encounter yet with one of the area's Pika. We were trekking along a scree slope when we started hearing the distinct, sharp squeaks that indicate these little puff balls are around; so I stopped walking and began scanning...

I seem to have become obsessed with Hi Key images. While many are intentionally over exposed by 2 or 3 stops when being taken, I have also been able to adapt others. Here the distracting fore and backgrounds have been selected and "all sliders set to max" to blow out all apart from the elephant...

Couldnt find any treads dealing with collected sheeps, so thought I should put one up, starting with this one: Autumn is upon us, and up here in Norway that means that the sheep that is put out in the "wild" to roam in Spring, is collected up to be either kept over the winter or is off to the...

1. Found a peanut! 2. Got it open 3. Went to heaven (mm-mmm!) 4. Just how I dreamed it would be!

Didn’t want to swamp the show birds thread with a ton of photos in a single post, but these all belong together. I watched for awhile today as a GBH skillfully fished time and time again, coming up with a fresh fish all but once.

Amazingly friendly

Hangin' in our yard ... Handheld SOOC (cropped)

There seems to be no dedicated turkey thread so I thought...why not (something something Dayton Allen)? Check out these rude snoods! 😺 I giggle at this one every time, because I keep thinking of it in one of those Revolutionary War 3-cornered hats with a musket by its side:

The Wilds is a safari park in Eastern Ohio. It is a great conservation facility that supplements the running of the animal care with safari like tours. https://thewilds.columbuszoo.org/home/about/about-the-wilds/usa-today-winner Wife and I spent an overnight there in a yurt and as part of our...

A image to introduce myself. .

So last Friday I spent the afternoon with some of the fine folks at Integrazers, who have been helping to do both weed abatement and fire mitigation here in California for years by leasing their herds of goats and sheep to landowners, industrial parks, and even neighborhood HOAs. Cue cuteness...

Even though I see them every single day I just never tire of roos (kangaroos). Amazingly they say the longer and higher they jump, the less energy they use. Astounding creatures. I so adore them in motion….maybe in the next life (if I'm good in this one) I'll experience that feeling for myself...

Please share your images of marine mammals, including: whales, dolphins, etc. (cetaceans) seals, sea lions, walrus, etc. (pinnipeds) manatees, sea cows (sirenians) otters polar bears Images from zoos, aquariums,and other captive situations are welcome, but please identify them as such...

The Great Smoky Mountains is the most visted national park in the US. But it is still a big place, full of wildlife. I have been hiking for 20 years in the park, and only a few times have I ever come across any of the large(ish) animals in the park. Once a bear, once some otters, a few times...

We went on a guided tour at Año Nuevo State Beach, just south of Pescadero, CA. This is the primary mating/birthing area for Elephant Seals. They begin to come ashore in December. Right now, there’s a few hundred there, by this time next month, there will be thousands.

been almost two years now since our last visit... nice to be able to go back... Untitled by tilman paulin, on Flickr Untitled by tilman paulin, on Flickr great blue heron by tilman paulin, on Flickr kingfisher by tilman paulin, on Flickr northern pintail by tilman paulin, on Flickr mallard...