I managed to capture a few photos of some of the local wildlife this week. I hope you enjoy, and have a great Sunday.
I’ve been seeing this rabbit in the neighbourhood for months, and it makes me sad as it is definitely not one of the regular wild hares, but likely a pet that someone abandoned. During the bitterly cold snap we have been having, I make sure there is some of the feed we leave for the deer accessible for him/her.Fluffed up against the -28C temperatures. This flicker spent the day back and forth between the suet feeder and places like this to rest.Just like last winter, the deer bowl was empty, so split-ear raided the sunflower seeds I leave out for the birds. And, she’s teaching her young ones the same tricks!Four deer were in the yard when it was time for me to fill feeders; they are quite comfortable with me and I knew they wouldn’t go far when I was outside, so I took my camera along and grabbed a few photos. Good thing it had warmed up enough that I only needed gloves on, not mittens. Operating a camera with mittens is just not functional.Food fight!Not quite the customer I had in mind for the sunflower seeds!
I managed to capture a few photos of some of the local wildlife this week. I hope you enjoy, and have a great Sunday.
I’ve been seeing this rabbit in the neighbourhood for months, and it makes me sad as it is definitely not one of the regular wild hares, but likely a pet that someone abandoned. During the bitterly cold snap we have been having, I make sure there is some of the feed we leave for the deer accessible for him/her.Fluffed up against the -28C temperatures. This flicker spent the day back and forth between the suet feeder and places like this to rest.Just like last winter, the deer bowl was empty, so split-ear raided the sunflower seeds I leave out for the birds. And, she’s teaching her young ones the same tricks!Four deer were in the yard when it was time for me to fill feeders; they are quite comfortable with me and I knew they wouldn’t go far when I was outside, so I took my camera along and grabbed a few photos. Good thing it had warmed up enough that I only needed gloves on, not mittens. Operating a camera with mittens is just not functional.Food fight!Not quite the customer I had in mind for the sunflower seeds!
***December 12th – I guess I forgot to actually hit post on this yesterday – oops! ***
While I have actually seen quite a lot this week around the neighbourhood, it has mostly been too cold to get the camera out to capture anything while out walking. -22C was the average temperature for my morning walks, and I had to resort to mittens, which don’t lend themselves to quick wildlife shots! The deer and fox have been around a lot, as well as the hairy woodpeckers and lots of chickadees.
For the first time in a long time though, I spotted a northern flicker in the yard, and that is the lone photo of the week (since I could take it through my office window).
***December 12th – I guess I forgot to actually hit post on this yesterday – oops! ***
While I have actually seen quite a lot this week around the neighbourhood, it has mostly been too cold to get the camera out to capture anything while out walking. -22C was the average temperature for my morning walks, and I had to resort to mittens, which don’t lend themselves to quick wildlife shots! The deer and fox have been around a lot, as well as the hairy woodpeckers and lots of chickadees.
For the first time in a long time though, I spotted a northern flicker in the yard, and that is the lone photo of the week (since I could take it through my office window).
As promised on Sunday, another selection of birds of Southern Africa.
Enjoy, and have a wonderful day!
The beautiful lilac breasted roller.A yellow-throated long claw seen at Phinda.A pied kingfisher in the reeds of the Okavango Delta.A lilac breasted roller… even the guide couldn’t figure out exactly what it was doing.A lappet-faced vulture seen in the Kalahari Desert.Guinea fowl roosting in the treetops.A glossy starling.A common fiscal.
I was going through my folder of edited photos and realized I have a large number of random bird photos ready to go. Which is good, because I’ve not managed to get out and capture any of the local wildlife lately!
Even splitting the group of photos I found into two, I’ve still got a fair number of bird photos to post in the future!
I hope you enjoy, and have a great day!
A magpie shrike perched in an acacia tree.A lilac breasted roller perching beautifully for a photo.A pair of kori bustards in the Kalahari Desert.A green backed heron hunting along the edge of a dam.A brown hooded kingfisher.A sacred ibis flies over on of the swamps of the Okavango Delta.An African wood hoopoe.
It’s seems like such a long time since I have done one of these posts! I was planning to do one last week, but woke up Sunday morning to a computer meltdown instead – not quite how I was planning to spend my day.
I’ve got a bit of a mixed bag from the last two weeks… Fingers crossed I can get back into the routine of weekly photos again 🙂
Have a great week everyone!
I was very excited that the first time I’ve saw Bohemian Waxwings happened to be on a bright, sunny day.These were part of a larger group that were in my neighbourhood for a very short period of time. If I had left a few minutes later for my lunchtime walk, I would have missed them. 1/800 sec, f5.6, ISO 320This fox has become a fixture in the neighbourhood, but (s)he is very shy and scurries away as soon as Spencer and I get close. The weather has been to iffy to haul around my big lens, so zoom and cropping are my friends. 1/500 sec, f5.6, ISO 800For the Monday supermoon, I went on a field trip with my photo club. After a year and a half living here, it’s the first time I have been down to photograph the train bridge. All you can see of the moon is the light trail on the water. 0.4 sec, f4.0, ISO 2000 (Nikon D610)Same scene, different camera and a different interpretation. 0.3 sec, f3.1, ISO 1000 (Panasonic FZ1000)