Please share your photos of nature, wildlife, etc.

[FancyDiamond]

Are you there right now? Fascinating creatures!

I wish. We are all in lock down.

 

[missy]

Giant tortoise from Galapagos.

OMG gorgeous!

Rockhopper Penguin and King Penguin from Falklands Islands

My DH and I LOVE penguins. So beautiful.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[FancyDiamond]

More King penguins and Elephant seals from South Georgia.

 

[missy]

More King penguins and Elephant seals from South Georgia.

WOW.
Glorious.

 

[FancyDiamond]

gentoo penguins, Amelie penguins, leopard seals from Antarctica. Let’s not forget the whales. Photo taken from aboard a helicopter using my iPhone.

 

[missy]

gentoo penguins, Amelie penguins, leopard seals from Antarctica. Let’s not forget the whales. Photo taken from aboard a helicopter using my iPhone.

Amazing photos. I feel like we are there. They are magnificent.

 

[canuk-gal]

Gorgeous day for a bike ride!

 

[Rad_Fan]

Sakura the otter & Mochi the cat from YouTube

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Baby robins in my grapes...

 

[Rad_Fan]

Baby robins in my grapes...

such fun!

 

[mom2dolls]

 

[missy]

Sorry for the crooked pic of the swans.






We have had a lot of lightning here lately. So beautiful but my adrenaline spikes when I hear thunder and we are outside.

 

[missy]

Swan close up.

 

[missy]

Turtle sighting!!! So exciting

 

[missy]

Omg Blue Heron!!!






@bling_dream19 we’re in OG. But you probably guessed that

 

[FancyDiamond]

Various species of penguins
we saw all of them in our expedition cruise to Falklands Islands, South Georgia, and Antarctica. These photos were shown to us in our enrichment presentation before zodiac excursions and landings. Last photo is the adorable Adele penguin.

 

[FancyDiamond]

Real life photos of Rockhopper and Gentoo Penguins

 

[missy]

New species of Duck for us. Gotta look it up when we get home. Wow. Beautiful babies!!!

 

[missy]

Greg did a search and he thinks this is the species of duck we saw yesterday. So cool!
A black bellied whistling duck. They are so pretty.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...identify+a+brown+duck&hl=en-US&source=sh/x/im

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[AuntKiki]

Snapped through a dirty window

 

[missy]

We saw a gorgeous pair of deer today.

 

[missy]

More babies.

 

[missy]

@Matata here is the video I took. Sorry it’s not longer and more exciting. By the time I got over my shock at seeing these beautiful ducks they were getting ready for flight.

 

[Matata]

Thanks @missy. When I worked for Audubon in south Texas, they were everywhere. I even got to rehab a few injured ones. I loved to hear their soft whistles. There were so many awesome birds in Texas as well as those who migrated through and I really miss seeing them. It's the only thing I miss about living in Texas lol. I'm curious why they're up north.

 

[missy]

Thanks @missy. When I worked for Audubon in south Texas, they were everywhere. I even got to rehab a few injured ones. I loved to hear their soft whistles. There were so many awesome birds in Texas as well as those who migrated through and I really miss seeing them. It's the only thing I miss about living in Texas lol. I'm curious why they're up north.

Wow how wonderful that must have been to rehabilitate a few injured birds. I would love to be able to do something like that. I don't know why they are up so far North. We cycled to the area again yesterday but they are nowhere to be seen now. I wonder if they went back to more familiar territory?

Just goggled it and look what I found from May 2019. They were here then too!

Seen in New Jersey: The season for rarities to appear

For many, the chase is to add another year-bird to their hopefully burgeoning list.

www.nj.com

"
...snip...A new addition to this list is the black-bellied whistling duck. Three of these ducks were discovered in Alloway in Salem County. A dozen years ago, multitudes of birders would have been traveling south to locate these beautiful waterfowl, but they — at least, for now — have become annual in the Garden State in small numbers. A cousin of this whistling duck, the Fulvous whistling duck first appeared in New Jersey in the mid- to late '70s, with about 100 birds recorded. However, after a single bird was observed in 1981, they never appeared again — so we must appreciate these birds while we have them."

 

[lissyflo]

We saw this majestic guy on our dog walk this morning. The picture distorts the scale, but he was huge!

 

[missy]

It’s chock full of deer here today. Lots of babies

 

[lissyflo]

This was outside our front door a couple of years ago, the day before my son’s birthday. We saw her again a few times the year after but no sightings this year. (I assume it was the same mum as she was walking the babies on the same route, from a pond in the next street, causing traffic to stand still for them on the main road!). Any babies that dawdled at the back got a firm telling off from mum (at least, it sounded that way to us.)

 

[DauphineMucha]

This was outside our front door a couple of years ago, the day before my son’s birthday. We saw her again a few times the year after but no sightings this year. (I assume it was the same mum as she was walking the babies on the same route, from a pond in the next street, causing traffic to stand still for them on the main road!). Any babies that dawdled at the back got a firm telling off from mum (at least, it sounded that way to us.)

I often wonder if wild animals know how to count their babies? How do parents know they got them all? Strictly count on calling?

 

[missy]

I often wonder if wild animals know how to count their babies? How do parents know they got them all? Strictly count on calling?

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