Miscellaneous Wildlife

[Aussie shooter]

Is that a hint for Codebunny to emigrate there?

Any landscape photographer should want to emigrate to Tassie. It has it all.

 

[Bert63]

After disastrous attempt for birds I somehow got this one - Hawaiian Monk Seal again...

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These are great - how big are these guys? Harbor seal sized?

 

[Bert63]

They ARE Scottish breed. I saw plenty of them in the mountains:

Love it.

 

[dpc]

Muskrat foraging, October 18th, 2020

 

[Click]

Nice pictures. I especially like the second one.

 

[ISv]

These are great - how big are these guys? Harbor seal sized?

Females are slightly bigger than the males and reach up to 2.5 meters in length and about 250 kg in weight.
So, they are significantly bigger than the Harbor Seal!

 

[Bert63]

Females are slightly bigger than the males and reach up to 2.5 meters in length and about 250 kg in weight.
So, they are significantly bigger than the Harbor Seal!

Wow! Would love to see something like this.

We have seals all around the Island and can get very close to them, but we don't get anything like Sea Lions or similar up here. These are awesome - thanks!

 

[dpc]

Who you looking at?

 

[Click]

I really like this shot. Well done, dpc.

 

[AlanF]

First time I have seen a Shrew (5R + 100-400mm II). They are about the size of a mouse, with a huge snout. eyeAF not much use with these!

 

[Nemorino]

Nice shots of this cute and shy animals!
Good luck to see them in daylight, probably nocturnal animals.

 

[ISv]

Nice shots of this cute and shy animals!
Good luck to see them in daylight, probably nocturnal animals.

Actually they are active day and night. They have to eat nearly nonstop with that hyperactive metabolism (what I know is that they can survive only few hours without food). Last year in Europe my daughter was very lucky to make a video of presumably Southern water shrew (at ~1800-1900m above the see level) feeding on peace of apple dropped from a tourist. In the middle of the day! Unfortunately she had only her cellphone in hand...

 

[Nemorino]

Actually they are active day and night

Thanks for the info!

. Last year in Europe

I've been all my life in Europe and never seen them.

 

[ISv]

Just crabs...

 

[Click]

Very nice series, ISv. I especially like the second picture.

 

[dpc]

Bighorn lamb in the wild

 

[Click]

Nice portrait, dpc.

 

[dpc]

Following the repast: An owl or hawk was having lunch on our lawn and forgot to clean up after itself. Probably an owl since we have a a pair of GHO's which occasionally live in our spruce trees. Hard to say, though, since we also have a hawk which sometimes roosts in our back yard. Haven't found any owl pellets lately, so maybe the culprit was the hawk.

 

[RGB49]

R5 with Sigma 150-600 Sport+ 1.4X SOOC
ISO12800 1/1000s F9 840mm

 

[Aussie shooter]

While not a native species the European Hare is a very common sight around my neck of the woods and I always enjoy shooting them. Particularly in the summer with dry grass making up much of their environment.