In the wild: Animals edition
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Yeah, the males are pretty flashy.
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@SFMCfranky incredible shot.
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@Mizmazzle said in In the wild: Animals edition:
@SFMCfranky incredible shot.
I’ve got a couple of feeders specifically designed for orioles. They’re like hummingbird feeders, but with larger holes and perches. Hooded Orioles are nectar feeders. So they’ll eat the same sugar water as the hummingbirds. They’re not uncommon here in California. However, they are very shy. If they see you before you see them, they split immediately. Therefor, all my photos of them are taken through windows.
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We made a friend! Ok taxidermy is cheating but this one has an interesting story. She killed a pet German shepherd and when she came back for the second one they shot her. She’s Hattie’s best friend
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@mclaincausey reminds me of childhood visits to my local dead animal museum (originally the private collection of Walter Rothschild).
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@ARNC this place is owned by the Anschlutz family. They have a lot of taxidermy to say the least. They have a great collection of western art and a lot of that is displayed throughout the property.
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House finches are giving it another go
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@Oaktavia They reuse nests in the same season, but I'm not sure if Josie will be back in the same nest next year. If so, it's in need of some repairs. I may try to shore it up so it doesn't fall, and at least give her a chance to make the decision to use it again or not. Right now the way it's tipping over, I can't imagine her being interested in using it again.
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@seawolf so freaking neat man.
This past Sunday morning, while I was puffing away and drinking coffee in my back yard, I watched a hummingbird on one of the feeders. I like to watch them feed and then follow them with my eyes as they fly up to the tree tops. From there I view them using my binoculars as they chill on branches. As I pointed out the one I saw to my wife, I told to her to follow them as I did with our eyes. We then watched as two additional hummingbirds flew in unison with the first, twisting and whirling around in the sky among the trees as they vanished into the forest. Made my fecking morning.
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I took these photos a couple of years ago in Yellowstone. I highly recommend visiting the park when there's still snow on the ground. It makes spotting wildlife so much easier, and we only saw a couple of dozen humans all day.
Bison eating by the river.
Coyotes running across a clearing.
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@seawolf those pictures are beautiful. I need to make it out there one day. Might take some convincing to get the wife out in some snow though.
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@ZackB she will love it. It is a magical place.
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@ZackB The snow wouldn't have been my first choice, but man, was it worth it. We basically had the park to ourselves. In the summer, there can be bumper-to-bumper traffic through the park because you have to deal with everyone stopping to take pictures of the wildlife. We were able to move through the park at our own pace, and pull over whenever we wanted to take pictures without impeding anyone else's day. These pics are from March, so it wasn't the dead of winter, and not unpleasantly cold or anything.
