Critters

[highping]

I'm assuming these are a male and female. Been hanging out in one of our flowerpots in the garden.

 

[Mr Boochie]

 

[JDub]

Bison, Blue Mounds state park, Luverne, MN.

 

[A/D/Slover]

 

[Mr Boochie]

Albert is eating his nuts. I named him after a co-worker.

 

[WillVT]

 

[tybrad]

 

[old_tv_nut]

 

[old_tv_nut]

 

[Mr Boochie]

 

[tybrad]

 

[WillVT]

 

[Mr Boochie]

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That's one BIG critter!

 

[GuyK]

Canis Latrans from one of my regular walks. I saw three of them come rocketing out of the brush and managed to get the the long lens on two of them, though only this image is sort of decent.

 

[GuyK]

Sucks to be at the bottom of the food chain. I saw this rabbit carcase plopped on a stump and started to wonder if a coyote had killed it (I saw 3 in this park a couple days ago). Then started thinking - a coyote probably wouldn't have left this much behind, and probably wouldn't have left it on a stump. Then I saw some whitewash, and realizing the corpse was still almost warm, started to look around. That's when I saw this Cooper's hawk that is so bloated it looks like it might pop.

 

[scuba]

Frigate birds fishing in Curacao.

 

[scuba]

Spotted Cleaner Shrimp.

 

[GuyK]

Anna's hummingbird and a Muskrat from my walk this morning.

 

[GuyK]

Of all the days to go for an early morning walk. I got back and chatted with my neighbor for a couple minutes and was informed that there had been three Blacktail deer in the yard browsing on my apricot tree. Oh well. I got to see some wildlife anyways. 1)Red Eared Slider and Western Painted turtles. 2) Northwestern Pond turtle? These are endangered, so maybe not. Any herpetologists here? 3,4) Gr Blue heron, 5) Spotted Towhee.

 

[GuyK]

I contacted WDFW and one of their biologists has identified picture 2 as a melanistic Red Eared Slider (the larger of the two in the first pic). This is apparently a characteristic of older males of this species - they lose their colors.