The Dynamics of a Wolf Pack, or at least this one, according to the guy that took the picture and described what was happening.
I have to question the wisdom of having old/sick breaking the trail, and the Alpha leading from the rear, but what do I know.
I could fake dogging, but wolfing is right out, I've never even played one on TV. ;)

Playing footsie.

Slight reach advantage...

...that eagle is gonna have to do some serious bobbing and weaving.

That eagle is in way over his head .

And the crane/ibis/whatever has backup.

He just tried to steal a fish, how was he to know it belonged to Rocky Balboa. :haha:

Looks more like Adriaaaaaaaaaan.

Osprey vs. high voltage:

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Ouch! :greenface

:(

Shovel lovin' 1-2-16 Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge

Yup, thats the place. A friend of mine and I went birding this morning. He is very good. I'm a relative beginner.

Looks like the place to go birding.

I look at this picture and think doesn't that Ibex(substitute sheep, goat, or any of the climbing critters), realize how dangerous that is. I know they have the feet and do it from birth, but shit happens. Doesn't he know if he slips, he dies? Then it dawned on me, no, he just may not. He may think if he slips it'll be a pain in the ass to climb back up, but who knows.
I'm sure he doesn't have any concept of internal injuries, fractured bones, long convalescence, or brain dead. That's what humans worry about, in addition to dying, so most of us don't do shit like hang out on the ledge... except glatt's sister and Griff. :haha:

Mine was more get wet lose a toe. Glatt's sister runs with the goats.

Carruthers talked about torn up lawns from, I think, hedgehogs. These folks have birds tearing up theirs.

Photo safari, Sunday:

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All maximum telephoto, handheld, just after sundown.

My camera has no provision for manual focus:

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Dis m'squrl:

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Dis a different squrl:

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What is that green stuff on your ground?

Nice pictures. I don't see deer that often around these parts.

I'll have to do some serious archive surfing for pics I have of wildlife, but here in MT I have seen the following:

All 3 species of eagle native to North America--baldie, golden, and osprey, all seen from my balcony, and most photo'd at least once. I have photographed a female Northern Harrier hawk at least once, and a peregrine in one of my first favorite trees to get cut down not 2 months later :(. The tree where a baldie let me walk right up to the other side of the dirt road and take pics is now gone too, along with the trees where our kestrels and flickers used to nest. And we have a large owl in the neighborhood, but I haven't spotted it in daylight so I'm not sure if it's a barn or a great horned, the 2 most common locally.

Snow and Canada geese on migration, plus the occasional sandhill cranes and every few years we get swans flying by in October. Can't begin to ID the ducks. Oh, and cormorants! 700+ miles inland, and we have a breeding population of double-crested cormorants, normally a bird of coastlines and estuaries. Also American white pelicans, tho' I usually see those around about Kennewick, WA. I got a pic of the wild turkey hen that roamed through a couple of summers ago. I've seen and photographed brown pelicans on the Oregon coast, along with the highly localized Northwestern crow, smaller than the inland species. And we have ravens. They're camera-shy, but they don't know about the FujiFilm my dad just gave me, which has 32x zoom! And magpies...magpies will TOTALLY mess with you for fun.

I've seen foxes and heard coyotes. None of the something like 16 PACKS of wolves come in close to town so far. And I photographed bear cub tracks half a block from my front door.

We have whitetail deer, which certain factions of hunters are sure are being wiped out by our wolves. Funny thing, a fella not too far from where I live has been doing his own independent study of roadkill deer and found 2/3rds of the bucks have deformed boy bits in some way or another. Wolves do NOT cause birth defects in deer. I got a photo of my first wild elk, a female grazing summer pasture, up in Lost Trail Pass. Haven't seen a moose yet, dangit.

The pic I am including is from year before last if memory serves and is one of the more exotic animal shots I've gotten at home! Most years around October a Little Brown bat (the actual species name) will take a breather under the wooden planks that make up our front porch. The photo is quite a bit larger than life; I think the bolt in the foregrounds is a 3/8ths inch! If they hang around too long, I will often catch them (a lifetime watching nature documentaries taught me how to do so safely) and if a couple hours warming up is all they need I let them go when I hear them rustle in the dedicated container I keep. Otherwise I hand them off to the local wildlife rehabber, who has repeatedly complimented me on my handling of bat rescue. The management here knows to call me if someone finds a bat they want moved :).

If you have a dearth of Eagles, build one. ;)

Cute little bunnies, huh? :eyebrow:

God damn...

xob, I think the ibex is thinking, "whew, I'll never get eaten here."

grav, you must be kidding about no manual focus on your camera. what is the make/model?

I don't think we have one of these critters yet. Now that seakdivers doesn't post anymore, I think I'm the only one of us who might see one regularly. I saw him from the deck of the ferrey while crossing to Seattle.

Harbor seal.

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There is something real about a seal.

Not to belittle your gorgeous seal pic, BigV, but for full pedantry, I've seen seals in the wild in three places in the UK:
Two of those places were in Scotland.
In one of those places, I saw them multiple times.
That was the Isle of Arran.
Where our lovely Limey lives.

Get yourself to Arran! Eagles, hare, deer, seals, otters. You'd be right at home you Seattelite (and you have far better photo skills than me)

Cape Cod is lousy with the damn things, they've ruined the fishing and shellfish industry, and they're what's bringing the great Whites.

Nope, not kidding. It's a Fujifilm FinePix S3280. It's a POS bridge camera.

As in drop it off a bridge?

Only if it's a local bridge.

If I ever get another camera I WILL be putting a bullet and/or arrow through this one's lens.

I offered.

does it have focus lock? If so, point it at something else about the same distance and lock the focus, then reframe and shoot.

it does have focus lock, I looked it up. I'm sure grav already does know that. It seems... cruel to offer manual controls for aperture, exposure, iso, but not focus.

I think these would be a better as sprucing up the yard than squirrels.

Bruce has been trying to warn us abut these vicious, heartless, murdering bastards:

:D

It also does not like to shoot through windows and/or screens. If you get the telephoto out far enough it will, though. Sometimes.

Coyote tangles with snake in the Everglades ... but is it real?

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Aww...they're hugging.

:joylove:

That's probably because it uses an infra-red focus assist. it 'sees' the glass or screen and 'thinks' that must be what you are wanting to photograph.

What camera is it? Fuji finepix S3280?

Yeah, it doesn't seem to have IR focus, it probably uses contrast to determine focus, The screen has obvious contrast, your window glass may have spots on it and it is picking up on them. The reason you can focus past the window when you zoom is because at long lens focal lengths (i.e. zoomed) the nearest focus distance is increased, so since the camera can't focus on the glass even enough to 'see' the spots or the pattern of the screen, it will look for the next best contrasting thing. "HEY! How about those branches against the sky, way in the back, at the edge of the frame, fucking miles from the thing you want to shoot. How about I focus on them?"

I love all auto everything cameras that are smarter than me. Not

You push the button, we'll do the rest. Don't you worry your sweet little head about nuthin.

It depends on the camera.

I'm often amazed at the quality of the exposure/balance/etc of many of the shots I take on auto with my little Canon G7 X. Really.

For what those cost, it'd damn well better amaze.:speechls:

This is exactly the point, They are optimized for many shots and some of the more intelligent meters will "recognize" a dark central shape surrounded by light that is 10 or 12 stops brighter and figure "hmm. probably a person in front of a window. Let's just ignore the 12 stop brighter light and meter off the dark shape."

Which is great when that's the case. but when you want to go off script, it can be problematic.

This Kodak has "scene modes" for...
Portrait Full-frame portraits of people.
Landscape Distant scenes.
Close-up Close range
Flower Close-ups of flowers or other small subjects in bright light.
Sunset Subjects at dusk.
Backlight Subjects that are in shadow or “backlit” (when light is behind the subject).
Candle Light Subjects illuminated by candle light.
Children Action pictures of children in bright light.
Manner/Museum Quiet occasions, like a wedding or lecture. Flash and sound are disabled. Place the camera on a steady surface or tripod.
Text Documents. Place the camera on a steady surface or tripod.
Beach Bright beach scenes.
Snow Bright snow scenes.
Fireworks Place the camera on a steady surface or tripod.
Self-Portrait Close-ups of yourself. Assures proper focus and minimizes red eye.
Night Portrait Reduces red eye of people in night scenes or low-light conditions.
Night Landscape Distant scenery at night. Flash does not fire.
Panning Shot Emphasizing horizontal motion, keeping the foreground sharp.

My old Olympus has...
(Self-Portrait shooting),
(Night scene shooting),
(Landscape+Scene shooting),
(Landscape+Portrait shooting),
(Sports shooting),
(Portrait shooting, factory default setting)
Plus 4 modes you can preset for conditions you know you'll run into.

Yes, it's true Dwellars, everything in Australia really is out to kill you.

Good boy!!!

Doggeh shoulda got steak that night.

So, apparently this elephantess was strolling along, minding her own business, when she walked up on, and startled, a sleeping water buffalo.

Now, in case you were unaware, a water buffalo is one of the most fearsome creatures on the planet. A startled one? Yeesh!

This one, however made the ill-advised choice of showing the elephant it was displeased.

If you look closely, you will see the elephantess's single tusk completely skewering the buffalo, brisket to backbone. Which she then shook around like a ragdoll. Yeah...she wasn't impressed.

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Here's the article.

The dog is obviously smarter than the owner who just kept sitting back down in the chair without killing the snake first...


I remember reading about or hearing about a book wherein the author posits that dogs and humans both survived as species because they formed an symbiotic alliance. Now I need to find that unless someone else has mad googling skilz.

Punk kids always more, more, more...

gooooooal! he shoots he scores

:lol2:

30 lbs frozen pork...

Many Meeses...

Mah squrl:

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Gonna give it diabetes. http://cellar.org/2012/nono.gif

Screw him, he's gotta die from something...

Squirrel sex? Oh dear, you are sick. :sadsperm:

In Australia many people have witnessed, and a few even filmed, Black Kites and Brown Falcons setting fires. No, not stealing cigarette lighters, grabbing burning sticks from a lightning fire and flying to unburned areas setting new fires. As if venomous, poisonous, toothy critters, and spiders that eat bats, weren't enough. :eek:

Are they using it to get prey moving?