Please share your photos of nature, wildlife, etc.

[missy]

I looked it up, they’re cousins! According to Wikipedia: “Egrets are herons that have white or buff plumage.” Cool, learn something new everyday. Don’t let Mr. Hero hear this but I prefer his white cousin. Lol.

Love this Thanks for looking it up. When I get home I’ll share some photos of our herons. There’s so many around here. And their egret cousins too.

 

[missy]

@Fabfashion here are some of our Great Blue Herons.

 

[Fabtwinsmom]

@Fabfashion here are some of our Great Blue Herons.

Great pics, @missy! Ours seems to be rather elusive. We get excited when one comes for a visit. We have osprey in the area as well but haven’t been able to capture on camera. They nest near the north end of our lake.

 

[Wink]

I took my camera with me while walking the dog on Sunday morning. It had been a torrential downpour when I woke at 5:30 AM, but by the time I walked the dog it was only intermittent sprinkles under a mostly overcast sky.

I was walking by my across the street neighbor's house when this rose lit up with light coming through a thinner layer of clouds than the rest of the foliage which was getting light through a thicker cloud.

Even though I would liked to have had on a wider lens, I stepped back until I was able to focus and grabbed this shot. Seconds later this rose "unlit" and I am so glad I got the shot before it did.

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[kgizo]

Looking forward to seeing baby turtles.

 

[junebug17]

Looking forward to seeing baby turtles.

Ok, this is very cool! Would you mind giving an update when the eggs hatch? This is not something you see every day!

 

[kgizo]

Ok, this is very cool! Would you mind giving an update when the eggs hatch? This is not something you see every day!

I hope to see them hatch and will give an update. I’ve seen them lay the eggs a few times, but not hatch.

 

[junebug17]

I hope to see them hatch and will give an update. I’ve seen them lay the eggs a few times, but not hatch.

Ah ok @kgizo, I can see how it's hard to catch it at exactly the right time!

 

[Piper70]

We have a Mama box turtle that just laid her eggs in our yard. My big softie husband put stakes up so we avoid the area.

 

[Piper70]

Dame’s rocket in my local park.

 

[Wink]

Resa and I needed to get out of the heat last weekend, so we drove up Stanley, Idaho. This is about eight to ten miles out of town and I snapped this with my phone while we were leaving to come back to Boise. The delightful sky above the snowy peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains just made our eyes so very happy!

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[missy]

From our cycling adventures the other day. I wish I could have gotten a photo of the baby. A tiny sweet doe but the momma pushed her away fast so I was only able to photograph the momma doe.











And a quick photo of the "wildlife' in our very own backyard.
Meet sweet Sasha. A purrrrrfect feral kitty.

 

[Wink]

I shared a phone photo above of my time in Stanley last weekend. This is another, taken with my Nikon and a 20mm lens. Taken early in the morning, as you can see by the shaded area starting at about the tree line as the sun has not yet climbed fully into the sky.



I got to thinking that while normally a shorter lens is used for landscapes, I wanted to see the peak in the left edge of the picture much more up close and personal. I changed lenses to a 70 - 300 zoom and found I liked the composition at 200mm best.

I really like the resultant image shared below. In a week or so it will hang on my wall at home.



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P.S. I see when I look at the expanded image, that dropping the DPI to 100 from 300 leaves a very slight halo at the edges of the peak. This is likely also due to the fact that my 70 - 300mm lens is a kit lens, not the quality I would be using if I was a professional photographer. Fortunately, at the larger 300 DPI there is no halo.

 

[VRBeauty]

The canyon of the North Fork of the American River. I know Hubby cooking breakfast doesn’t fall within the topic parameters, but if you were here to smell and hear see and hear that sizzling corn goodness, you’d understand why I had to include it!

 

[rcjtraveler]

A fox family under our garage. Mother, father and 4 babies. Able to get a few pictures but nothing clear enough with the little ones.

 

[Wink]

I love to see "urban" foxes here in my neighborhood. I see them most often in the dawn and dusk hours, which do not lend themselves to good wildlife photography with animals as skittish as a fox.

 

[m51galaxy]

We've been watching these Red Tail hawks in the neighborhood. Three young ones have recently fledged.

 

[ShinyPink]

Here's a little local owl family.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Bald eagle way up in the tree at the park today.

 

[Myshinybestlife]

Lucky to get a close picture of a puffin.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Took the kids for a walk in one of our state parks today:

 

[Mreader]

Took the kids for a walk in one of our state parks today:

Wow is that a bobcat in the first pic?!

 

[Mreader]

Starfish and sea anemones

 

[YadaYadaYada]

@Mreader, zoom in, it’s a deer
Probably wouldn’t be here to share pics if it had been a bobcat!

 

[Mreader]

@Mreader, zoom in, it’s a deer
Probably wouldn’t be here to share pics if it had been a bobcat!

Lol! I see it’s face now! Haha I saw the short tail and thought bobcat.

 

[Myshinybestlife]

First vacation since covid - Iceland

 

[rcjtraveler]

First vacation since covid - Iceland

Gorgeous pictures!

 

[Arcadian]

Thank you for sharing @Myshinybestlife I've been twice and its so gorgeous!

 

[Myshinybestlife]

Thanks, the pictures does not do this place justice. Very calming views

Gorgeous pictures!

 

[Myshinybestlife]

Thank you for sharing @Myshinybestlife I've been twice and its so gorgeous!

It is gorgeous, I have to come back for the northern lights in November.