Wildlife photo thread

tlb · August 10, 2021, 1:57am

No SPCA? What a shame, they are good looking ducks… I imagine someone abandoned them.

Paatit · August 10, 2021, 2:12am

Requiem for a water planet. Turtle Great Mother

castoff · August 10, 2021, 2:21am

I really like the dead turtle photo. That life is mortal is stated silently with stark elegance. Turtles have survived eons, but each must pay life’s debt.

Pru · August 10, 2021, 12:46pm

I’ve been reaching out in various place. So far I’ve been turned down, but I’m hoping to find someone who keeps ducks that would want them.

Jyak · August 10, 2021, 8:51pm

Coincidentally. Saw a turtle floating, on my last trip. Inspected to find a clue and looked like propeller marks. Odd how it you feel the loss.

davbart · August 10, 2021, 10:48pm

Canebrake Rattler, Floyd’s Island, Okefenokee

castoff · August 10, 2021, 11:18pm

Small Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake with just a button for a rattle. Photo taken in the dunes at Dayton Beach years ago.

castoff · August 10, 2021, 11:20pm

I stayed there in 2013. Saw signs of a Black Bear in the area.

Jyak · August 10, 2021, 11:34pm

Dang, where you paddling. Looks shallow.

davbart · August 11, 2021, 1:24am

I was there in May. The flies were a much bigger worry than the rattler.

castoff · August 11, 2021, 3:29am

Davbart I can imagine that time of year. Here’s a few of my favorite Okefenokee wildlife photos.

willowleaf · August 11, 2021, 4:36am

Lousy photo (cop cam) but it was posted on FB today by a nearby municipal police department (in suburban Pittsburgh PA near stretches of the Monongahela River where I often kayak). This 3 footer is a newcomer they spotted in the wee hours, near a stream that feeds the Mon. The cops declined to apprehend or scan for a chip but have asked residents to watch for it. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled from the water for the little guy.

Not all that novel for our inland empire: we had 3 errant pet gators captured several years ago along the Mon drainage including one nearly 6 feet long…

willowleaf · August 11, 2021, 4:44am

Here’s a better reptile shot, a four foot timber rattler we encountered in a lunch stop meadow along the West Branch Susquehanna in north central PA.

davbart · August 11, 2021, 10:34am

Nice photos, I wish I was a better photographer. I attempted to get a photo of a Swallowtail Kite and failed miserably.

Oldboo · August 11, 2021, 11:09am

I am so glad the scariest wildlife around here is at Walmart.

string · August 11, 2021, 5:11pm

Davbart, I’ve never seen a kite slow enough to get a good photo of. I think they are the most beautiful birds I’ve ever seen.

castoff · August 11, 2021, 5:39pm

I haven’t had a good shot of a Swallow-tailed kite either, but have seen lots of them over the years. Where I live now I haven’t seen one, but do at the coast.

Other birds.
Eagle on Bull Island