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January 8, 2017

2017-01-08: What I’ve seen this week

As I said in my Feel Good Friday post, this week has been great one for wildlife viewing around the house. The deer have been visiting in force, the flicker, grey jays, hairy woodpeckers, chickadees and magpies are around most days, and the rabbit has been by on more than one occasion.

The special visitor this week though was a gorgeous red fox, who I spotted two afternoons in a row. On both occasions, (s)he was hunting, the second day more successful than the first.

It’s such a joy to look out my office window while working and see all of this unfold!

Now, on to the photos 🙂

untitled-6 — I was absolutely blessed with such lovely light the first time I saw this fox in my yard. All day one photos 1/400sec, f5.6, ISO 500.

untitled-2 — So alert, stopping to listen every few moments.

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untitled-5 — I have a path cleared to get to the back of the yard from my shed, and that’s the way the fox took to head off on Tuesday.

untitled-10 — And then a couple of well aimed ounces and a bit of digging in the snow…

untitled-9 — Success! Some lunch, which the fox took to go.

January 6, 2017

2016-01-6: Feel Good Friday

I’ve had an amazing week of wildlife viewing so far, and I am really looking forward to sharing that on my What I’ve seen this week post on Sunday. But for today, I thought I would share one of my artistic impressions with you, since it has been a while since I’ve done so.

This was created using the Topaz Simplify plug in for Photoshop.

20160106 Feel Good Friday.jpg — Zebra in the Masai Mara, September 2016.

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January 5, 2017

2017-01-05: WPC Resilient

The mountain gorillas, despite living in conflict zones and being subjected to poaching and diseases, are still around, and in some areas, thriving. Spending time with them is a beautiful experience. I would definitely define them as being resilient. Let’s hope their numbers will increase, and we will be able to share our world with these magnificent creatures for many, many years to come.

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WPC: Resilient

December 28, 2016

2016 Year in Review #4

Coming in at #4 in my year in review was the post 2016-04-19: WPC Dinnertime. The WordPress photo blog prompt for the week was about mealtimes, and vultures feasting on a carcass fit the bill perfectly.

After my time in Kenya, I have a different take on dinnertime to share. We spotted a lion couple right after leaving camp on an early morning game drive, and the male decided that what was left of the wildebeest carcass was going to be his, and his alone. He dragged the kill a good hundred metres or so before settling down again for a rest. The female followed along behind, but didn’t try to get too close. I’ll have more photos from this sighting to share in the future, but I hope you enjoy this one for now.

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December 27, 2016

2016 Year in Review #5

I decided to take a look back at my most “popular” posts of 2016 – going only by the number of post views; since many of them are from the earlier part of 2016, I’ll be sharing them again over the next few days, along with a new photo related to the the original post.

I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane 🙂

Coming in at #5 is the post 2016-02-07: What I’ve seen this week. I was lucky to see a pair of eagles during my daytime walk back in February, under lovely blue skies.

The photo below was one that I originally dismissed, but looking at it again, I really like the triangles of light hitting the eye, beak and back, which tie together with all the triangles created with the mess of tree branches.

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