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Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
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Posted on 12/2/21 at 9:01 am to
Water Snake and Skink at Ruffner Mountain in Birmingham






Rosy-faced Lovebird in Phoenix





Wild Turkey in Chelsea AL







Red-shouldered Hawk in Birmingham





Osprey on Ono Island





Red-shouldered Hawk in East Nashville





Baby big horn sheep around Cottonwood Pass in Colorado





Mountain Goat family around Cottonwood Pass Colorado













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Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 12/2/21 at 9:09 am to
great picture


Posted by dcw7g
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 12/2/21 at 9:37 am to
quote:

This was the last frame captured on the camera.



Reminds me of the last photo taken by my trashed trail cam in Franklin County
Posted by gringeaux
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Posted on 12/2/21 at 1:20 pm to
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The Moment

This Himalayan marmot was not long out of hibernation when it was surprised by a mother Tibetan fox with three hungry cubs to feed. With lightning-fast reactions, Yongqing captured the attack – the power of the predator baring her teeth, the terror of her prey, the intensity of life and death written on their faces.



LINK

This was one of my favorite. The sheer terror on this animal's face is insane.
Posted by JustLivinTheDream
Member since Jan 2017
3587 posts
Posted on 12/3/21 at 4:31 am to
2012


Living on thin ice

Ole had photographed polar bears more than a hundred times before around the islands of Svalbard, northern Norway, but on this particular summer evening, everything came together to sum up the bear and its ice environment.




Lion by lightning

This young male seemed blissfully unconcerned by the lightning and thunder rolling in across the Kalahari.




Spirit of the forest

The First Nations people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, have for centuries revered the spirit bear, or Kermode bear, to be found in the Great Bear Rainforest – a vast, old-growth temperate rainforest that runs up from southern BC to Alaska.

The spirit bear is a rarity – a black bear with recessive genes that give it a creamy white coat. Its other name, ‘ghost bear’, reflects its elusiveness.




Lion in the spotlight

Tree-climbing is not a normal lion habit, but lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, often take to the trees in the day, probably to cool off and escape the flies.




Warning night light

One evening, while walking along the riverbed of the Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, Florida, USA, one evening, Larry came across a group of alligators.




Frozen moment

Paul was not the only mammal lying patiently in wait on the edge of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, to greet the explosion of emperor penguins.




The eye of the baitball

A pelagic cormorant was also watching the fish, and now and then it would shoot a hole through the ever-tightening baitball (tightening in response to the predator), making it easier for it to pick off individual fish.




The duel

In late May, about a quarter of a million snow geese arrive from North America to nest on Wrangel Island, in northeastern Russia.

They form the world’s largest breeding colony of snow geese. Sergey spent two months on the remote island photographing the unfolding dramas. Arctic foxes take advantage of the abundance of eggs and, later, goslings, caching surplus eggs for leaner times. But a goose (here the gander) is easily a match for a fox, which must rely on speed and guile to steal eggs.




Dive robbers

For five days, Jean had been trying to photograph the feeding frenzy that develops when sardines and herrings migrate off South Africa’s Wild Coast.




Snatch and grab

A red fox sidled up and tried to snatch the meal, but the eagle was having none of it. ‘After a short, fierce spat, the fox fled with the eagle literally hard on its heels.’ A golden eagle can kill prey even bigger than a fox, but with a carcass to defend, the eagle was almost certainly just trying to scare the fox away rather than grab it.




Practice run

When a female cheetah caught but didn’t kill a Thomson’s gazelle calf and waited for her cubs to join her, Grégoire guessed what was about to happen.




Perilous pickings

Polar bears require sea ice for every essential aspect of their lives. They normally feed on blubber-rich marine mammals, and they rely on a sea-ice platform to catch their prey. But in an increasing number of regions, the sea ice now melts completely in summer, forcing the bears ashore. There they must starve until the sea ice forms again in winter. This hungry young male was desperately attempting to climb down the rock face to scavenge eggs from nesting Brünnich’s guillemots, ‘risking his life and probably expending more energy climbing than he would have gained from any meagre meal of eggs.’




Seized opportunity

A single cheetah would never normally dream of taking on prey the size of an adult wildebeest.

But there was obviously something wrong with this wildebeest, which was lying on the ground, covered in mud. It kept trying, laboriously, to get to its feet. Each time it did manage to stand, it would collapse again. Its behaviour caught the attention of a female cheetah with two cubs, which Grégoire had been watching for several days in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park.




Bubble-jetting emperors

This was the image Paul had been so hoping to get: a sunlit mass of emperor penguins charging upwards, leaving in their wake a crisscross of bubble trails.




Blast-off

When an emperor penguin returns to the colony after a fishing trip, exiting from the sea as swiftly as possible is a matter of urgency.




Evening rays

North Sound, off the island of Grand Cayman, is a hotspot for ‘friendly’ southern stingrays – individuals accustomed to interacting with humans.




The lion pack

David had tried many times to get close-ups of Steller sea lions – large and very active mammals that can grow up to an impressive four metres in length and weigh more than a ton.




The snow herd

At 1,800 metres in the mountains of Canada’s Banff National Park, bighorn sheep are forced to scrape down into the snow with their hooves to reach the grass below.




Life in the border zone

The stillness of the red deer stag in the twilight made it almost invisible to motorists speeding down the highway through Jasper National Park, Canada.




Last look

This is a very special tiger.

He is one of fewer than 400-500 wild, critically endangered Sumatran tigers.




Flight paths

Harvest time at Owen’s grandparents’ farm draws in the birds of prey to feed on the fleeing small mammals, and it also attracts Owen, with his camera at the ready. ‘Seeing this red kite with an aeroplane in the distance was a moment I couldn’t miss,’ says Owen.

Posted by JustLivinTheDream
Member since Jan 2017
3587 posts
Posted on 12/3/21 at 5:09 am to
2011


Snow hare

Overnight, a storm had covered Lapua in thick snow. It was still snowing heavily, with big flakes.




Worming at dusk

It had been raining all day.

There was no one else around, and Klaus knew this improved his chances of seeing a badger before nightfall.




Forest fox

The foxes that Klaus sees in the Black Forest near his home in Freiburg usually keep their distance, even though they are not hunted.




Tiptoe lark

With the snow lying thick on the ground, Henrik headed out into the fields near his home in southern Finland in search of grey partridges sheltering in burrows in the snow.




Dawn stars

Set against the blue of the early morning light, the reef starfish almost glowed.




Sinuousness

Snakes can be difficult to find and even more difficult to photograph in an attractive setting.

So when Marco found this female grass snake beside a beautiful stream in Lombardy, Italy, he knew he had struck gold.




Trust

On this special day, the vixen stayed beside Klaus for more than two hours.




The assassin

The merlin pinioned the snipe, stared briefly at Steve and then killed its prey with a series of rapid blows to the head.




Racket-tail in the rain

Muted light gave the best results, and this shot of a male booted racket-tail feeding at a bromeliad was taken in the late afternoon.




Taking flight

He had returned to photograph the greater and lesser flamingos and used shade, shadows and silhouettes to create drama, rather than sunlight to emphasize their vivid colours.




A stack of suitors

Sipadan Island, off the east coast of Sabah, Borneo, is renowned for its relatively pristine coral reefs and rich marine life.




Making an impression

This is the moment that Akarevuro, a young male mountain gorilla, charged at Andy and his companions in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.




Balancing act

In a death-defying manoeuvre, a mountain goat stretches to reach a mineral lick.




Family tree

Paul caught up with this cheetah female and her six nine-week-old cubs just before sunrise.




The charge

Eric had been tracking Arctic wolves on Victoria Island, Canada, when his guide spotted a herd of muskoxen some 5 kilometres (3 miles) away.




The grace of giants

Paul had gone to Svalbard in Arctic Norway hoping to photograph walruses under water.




Salmon swipe

'I set out to show a salmon's-eye view of a swimming bear swiping at a fish with its huge paws,' says Paul.




False killers, disguised dolphin

Scientists have long known bottlenose dolphins sometimes associate with false killer whales, but this is almost certainly the first time the relationship has been photographed.




Worker's reflection

This line of fern-laden ants and their guards, their dainty bodies reflected in the water below, belies how resilient leaf-cutter ants are.




Taking off

With space at a premium, the normally territorial African black oystercatchers on Malgas Island, South Africa, are forced to congregate when feeding on the rocky shore.




Tiny warm-up

He is part of a band of about 70 or so Qinling golden snub-nosed monkeys living high up in China's Qinling Mountains, surviving on lichen, leaves, bark and buds.




Alien

Hui Yu photographed this imposing portrait of a tropical flat-faced longhorn beetle on a family photography trip to a tropical rainforest at Gunung Jerai in Malaysia.




Spirit of the Badlands

At first, Joe couldn't identify it. Then he realized that the creature was one of the Badlands' most elusive: a bobcat.




The warning

An Indian jackal slunk out of the bushes, glancing nervously behind.




Frozen in flight

It was Christmas morning when Jamie set up his shoot in his back garden.

Posted by jake wade
North LA
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Posted on 12/3/21 at 5:34 am to
All are good.
Posted by JustLivinTheDream
Member since Jan 2017
3587 posts
Posted on 12/3/21 at 5:52 am to
2010


Snowed in

Orsolya camped through winter storms in Norway's Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park to photograph muskoxen.




Swamp heaven

Mac spent months in the Francis Beidler Forest, South Carolina, photographing one of the world's largest stands of virgin cypress and tupelo trees.




Peregrine perch

The peregrine falcon had her work cut out.




Oil beetle pose

This creature made a strange sight, clinging to a sprig of gorse on a cold spring morning in southern Spain.




Snatch and grab

The fresh snow that covered the rubbish tip near Porvoo, on Finland's southern coast, didn't deter flocks of hungry crows, ravens and gulls searching for scraps.

These scavengers, in turn, attracted goshawks, which perched hidden in the trees around the tip.




The mobster

'The owl was obviously used to being mobbed. It barely flinched, shrugged off the crow and continued on its flight.'




Sweet intimacy

At high altitudes, where there are few insect pollinators, orchids invite the services of hummingbirds with offers of nectar.




Little owls on top

In spring, the deserted quarry near the town of Kiryat Gat in Israel becomes a bird metropolis.




Pickings from puffins

It was the puffins in particular that Marcello had come to photograph on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, renowned for its breeding colonies of seabirds.




March of the crabs

Each year, thousands of deep-sea Australian majid spider crabs set off to walk over the seabed to shallow waters off South Australia.




Flight of the rays

This astonishing aerial view of a massive congregation of Munk's devil rays was taken over the Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico.




A miracle of monarchs

Millions of monarch butterflies migrate down North America to spend the winter in the small, cold but sheltered forest site of El Rosario, high in the mountains of central Mexico.




The moment

'Today, as it's Christmas Day, we'll photograph a cheetah kill,' Bridgena announced to her family.




It came from the gloom

Patrik's sand-tiger location was a cave off South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.




King of the vultures

With a powerful, sharp beak, complete with a meat hook, and a rasping, flesh-stripping tongue, a king vulture (right) is itself a bit like butcher. It is often the first vulture to rip open a tough carcass, and this allows other vultures such as the black vulture (left) access to the softer meat inside.




Attention time

The newly fledged burrowing owl chicks (here, each balancing on one leg, with the female attending to some necessary grooming) still couldn't fly.




Caiman's little mouthful

As he headed back to his lodge in Brazil's Pantanal, he encountered a 3-metre-long (11-foot) caiman ambling across the lawn. Dangling from its jaws were the remains of a young armadillo.




A marvel of ants

When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy.




Night eyes

Not once in 20 years of searching on the island of Borneo had Tim ever seen a Horsfield's (or western) tarsier.




Survivor

This is the lead female of a pack of African wild dogs living in South Africa's Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve.




Golden forest rhino

Greg's long-held ambition has been to photograph the critically endangered black rhino in a forest habitat.




Last of the tuna

To supply the world's sushi markets, bluefin tuna are fished from the Mediterranean at four times the sustainable rate.




Golden monkey

Haijun and his parents went to China's Qingling Mountains, Shaanxi, in winter, to search for the endangered golden snub-nosed monkey.

They found a troop of monkeys drinking from a river, climbing trees, jumping and basking in the sun.




The frozen moment

On Boxing Day 2009, it was so cold in Scotland (-17°C /1°F) that the birds were desperate for food. A rowan tree at the bottom of Fergus's garden in Perthshire became a magnet for thrushes - five of the six British species - song thrushes, mistle thrushes, blackbirds, redwings and a flock of about 15 fieldfares, all frantically picking the berries.

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