Wild Animals

[MarkBarbieri]

Let's see some shots you've taken of wild animals actually in the wild - not your dog, not at the zoo, not even at the AK.

Orcas near Vancouver

Black Bears in Pacific Rim

Bald Eagle on Quadra Island

Big Horn Sheep in Banff

Elk in Jasper

Dragon Fly near Cultus Lake

Sea Otter in Pacific Grove

Sea Anemone at Point Lobos

Harbor Seals (or maybe they're Sea Lions) in Pacific Grove

Coyote near Rocky Mountain National Park

Elk near Rocky Mountain National Park

Hummingbird near Rocky Mountain National Park

 

[LPZ_Stitch!]

Wow, Mark ... those are some pretty spectacular pics, you've got there!

They're all great, but I *really* love the 1st coyote ... it would be perfectly at home in my favorite magazine; National Geographic! While the others are good looking pics, that one seems to have just a little something 'extra', to capture the 'personality' of the coyote!

 

[mabas9395]

Not as good as Mark's, and a few of his are from my neck of the woods so I have no excuses.

 

[Virgo10]

Oh wow, I can't compete with any of these but here's a couple anyway.

A family of raccoons outside our back door. This was taken through the glass (for obvious reasons) and was when I lived in MA.

Another pic from MA. This Carolina Wren was hanging upside down from a branch on a cold winter's day. I thought the poor thing was dead but, no, he was just hanging around.

My first Florida Alligator sighting.

Osprey perched right outside my front door.

Crab Like Spiny Orb Weaver. These have got to be the coolest spiders ever!

 

[Bugdozer]

 

[orchjoe]

 

[Melissa_E]

I hope this counts, it is a wild animal that I shot at the zoo, but he wasn't a zoo animal, he was a freeloader!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

It's not a competition. I've got a bunch of wildlife shots to choose from because I've been taking pictures for a long time and I spent a lot of time in wilderness areas.

Not as good as Mark's, and a few of his are from my neck of the woods so I have no excuses.

I'd love to have a shot like your second one. It makes my bald eagle shot look totally lame.

They're all great, but I *really* love the 1st coyote ... it would be perfectly at home in my favorite magazine; National Geographic! While the others are good looking pics, that one seems to have just a little something 'extra', to capture the 'personality' of the coyote!

Believe it or not, I took that shot from my parent's kitchen window. They sometimes have a coyote that prowls around near the house looking for scraps. The second elk shot was in the field across the street from them and the hummingbird was from the backyard. They live up in the mountains, just across the street from Rocky Mountain National Park. Here's a shot of their house in winter time:

 

[DueyDooDah]

 

[Queenie]

Ok mine aren't quite as exotic as some of the animals on here but still!

One that's not for the faint-hearted, a nest of baby spiders in my sister's back yard:

These guys were trying to run up the waterfall as they had a little one with them who couldn't fly. Took them a while and they drew a small crowd but they managed eventually and got a big cheer!

I love this shot, taken in London whilst we were waiting for our train home:

 

[deletedpenguin]

Welcome to Oz.

 

[My2Girls66]

I love everyone's photos! Wildlife seems to avoid melike the plague(I'm the only one I know that drove the length of Moose Alley at 20-mph at dusk and didn't see a single moose) but I did catch some wildlife in the Everglades in 2001- these were taken with my N80- film slr so they are scans.

I did see these bears in NH- on Cannon Mt. Spotted 3 black specks while driving by on the highway- stopped to check it out. We were quite far from them- taken with a 300mm lens with the N80.

And this little guy I saw in Stanley Park(Vancouver) last fall. A bunch of signs saying please don't feed the animals- they have to be destroyed if the get to be a nuisance. Of course, some people just can't obey the signs I hope he/she will be ok.

And this guy on top of one of the Mts in N Vancouver. Of 7 days in BC- 4 of them hiking in the mts near Whistler and in NVancouver- we saw 2 sea lions, a few of these grey jays and the raccoon. Not much for a place loaded with wildlife. Its almost like wildlife runs the other way when they know I'm near

In Howe Sound, BC

I forgot I had this spruce grouse from BC.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Here's my attemped shot of a butterfly

 

[NostalgicDad]

Pier 39, San Francisco......

Taking time out for a pose.....

This sucker would just not be still long enough for me to compose a good shot.......

This wild animal is just lending some perspective for the tree in this shot....

 

[rtphokie]

Not sure what this thing is, it looks like a flying shrimp to me

 

[declansdad]

Here are some taken in my back yard.

 

[lsayd]

A wild pony on Assateague/Chincoteague

Lubber grasshopper from the Everglades

A couple of butterflies

A barracuda and starfish

A manatee that befriended us at Crystal River, FL

And a couple of Key Deer on Big Pine Key, FL

 

[sk8belle]

The sunflower is more the focus on this than the bee is:

 

[Michele]

Porcupine-running off the road-Maroon Bells Park Aspen

Reindeer at a local ranch

Virgo10-thanks for letting me know what this was
Unfortunately I took a picture of this one in WDW, walking from YC to Epcot on the International Gateway

 

[BethanyF]

Not sure what this thing is, it looks like a flying shrimp to me

It's a clear-wing hummingbird moth. I have a shot of one too, but PhotoBucket is not being cooperative this morning.