The Wildlife Photography Thread

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Motherly Love...

 

[PaulT]

Beautiful image, Steve

Paul

 

[longhorn1]

A swan and 4 mallards visited our pond. jd

 

[Shadyapex]

Cooper's Hawk after making an attempt at the bird feeder.

 

[Shadyapex]

Thanks park. I'm liking the shot more myself, with the rattle being displayed from the coiled viper.
I shot with a smallish mirrorless camera using a mid-range zoom from about five feet away, while he hid under a bush.

I worry about our dog too. I've never had a dog get bitten, but have run into rattlers quite a few times in southern California and Baja.
We've avoided certain trails that have large populations of rattle snakes, since we hike with our dog.

I have a friend who encouraged his young dog to "engage" with a gopher snake. The snake struck and scared the crap out of the dog and now he won't go anywhere near any kind of snake. He did this deliberately as we do have rattlers around here.

 

[Shadyapex]

 

[Shadyapex]

 

[Lighthawk]

Cool shots, Shadyapex. But they are showing up as thumbnails. Maybe see if you can share something that's 600 pixels or wider?
In any case, the heron with desert background is pretty darn cool!

 

[Lighthawk]

Motherly Love...

Great shot, capturing a tender moment. Nice use of high key B&W.

 

[Shadyapex]

Cool shots, Shadyapex. But they are showing up as thumbnails. Maybe see if you can share something that's 600 pixels or wider?
In any case, the heron with desert background is pretty darn cool!

They should be 1000 px. I shared from My Media on this site. Are they not clickable for a larger image? They are for me.

 

[takesiteasy]

I get a larger image when I click the thumbs. Nice shots.

 

[Lighthawk]

Correct. They do open to a larger image when clicked.

 

[Shadyapex]

 

[Lighthawk]

Look great now! Amazing shot of two hawks mating.
Do you know which species raptor they are?

 

[Shadyapex]

Look great now! Amazing shot of two hawks mating.
Do you know which species raptor they are?

Yeah, I finally figured out the correct link on my zenfolio site to show the full image in the body of the post.
The raptors are a pair of Cooper's Hawks that have taken up residence in my neighborhood for the last few years. I have a big community of feeder birds so I think that's a big draw. The earlier pic of the Hawk taking off is one of the juveniles from a couple of seasons ago.

 

[ski3pin]

Look great now! Amazing shot of two hawks mating.
Do you know which species raptor they are?

That is an amazing shot. Good catch!

 

[Lighthawk]

Costa's hummingbird at 300mm.
Hole in the Wall, Death Valley.

 

[ski3pin]

Very, very nice!

 

[Stalking Light]

That is a nice one.

 

[N'kwala]

Oh wow. Great shot! just beautiful.