This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This young barn swallow and its sibling were being fed by their parents when I came by. As with many critters, especially young ones, they were willing to sit tight when there was food to be had. If not for the food I probably wouldn’t have gotten the photo.
I haven’t gotten any good photos of bobcats lately. They’ve given up their crepuscular ways and they’ve gone back to being nocturnal. This photo was taken in February. This particular guy was my favorite this past winter. He has a very pronounced chin. I had a house cat with a chin like his. It was diagnosed as feline acne, treated and it cleared up. I wonder if bobcats get feline acne.
On another note, I’m working on a review of window mounts. I hope to have that done in the next day or so. Included in that review will be the new Puffin Pad.
This is one of two calves I photographed a couple of days ago in the elk preserve. The other was much smaller (and younger). It was also noticeably darker.
This buck was grazing in a rancher’s field. H e must have liked what he was eating given how stuffed his cheeks are.
Pardon the hyperbole, but if a cow can jump over the moon why not a coyote? This photo was taken last winter. I’ve never seen a coyote jump this high while mousing (or doing anything else). This is the coyote I’ve covered before, including the day before yesterday, with the injured right foreleg. It looks swollen at the wrist. Nevertheless, he landed front feet first.
This coyote has a swollen area under his left eye. This is the same coyote I’ve posted photos of before. He had an injury to his right foreleg which caused him to limp last winter, but that seems to have healed. As an old friend of mine is fond of saying: “Life is tough.”
It’s mid-day and this adult great horned owl has hours to wait until darkness. In summer their hunting hours are much shorter than in winter, although they are busiest just after sunset and just before sunrise regardless of season. They prey on whatever is available. Hans Peeters, author of Field Guide to Owls of California and the West, states (page 191) that they have been known to even prey on house cats, bald eagles and canada geese. Bald eagles? Bald eagles weigh about 10 pounds. Great horned owls only weigh about three pounds. I wonder what they’d take if they weighed as much as an eagle?
