Your best animal shots!

[Mikehit]

Thank you Click, thank you Scott.

it is certainly great to see these in the wild doing what bears do

Very nice .... where abouts were these guys?

Nice to see a few new super posts in this thread!

Jack

Thanks, Jack. It was a place called Great Bear Lodge, a floating lodge in Smith Inlet located on the west coast just above Vancouver Island. Four days with no email, no phone, wonderful wildlife a superb scenery. Weather wasn't bad either.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thank you Click, thank you Scott.

it is certainly great to see these in the wild doing what bears do

Very nice .... where abouts were these guys?

Nice to see a few new super posts in this thread!

Jack

Thanks, Jack. It was a place called Great Bear Lodge, a floating lodge in Smith Inlet located on the west coast just above Vancouver Island. Four days with no email, no phone, wonderful wildlife a superb scenery. Weather wasn't bad either.

Wonderful! So, I kind of know where you were given that I was at Haida Gwaii recently. That area is amazing and I might just try to get over to where you were sometime. We're hoping for another trip with our small motorhome back to Haida Gwaii this coming summer. While driving back home to Alberta from Prince Rupert, I tried for a couple days without success to locate a Spirit Bear in the area around Rosswood, north of Terrace, BC. The local folk directed me where to look, but to no avail. Lots of B bears along the road but no grizzlies.

Jack

 

[Mikehit]

Apparently there's a place just (I say, 'just' - about 200km apparently) where you can fly in by seaplane and there are public viewing platforms where you can watch grizzlies without the cost of tour places like Great Bear Lodge or Knight's Inlet. If I remember where it was I will drop you a PM.

 

[Kerry B]

So fortunate to see Jaguar on my recent trip to the Pantanal.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Apparently there's a place just (I say, 'just' - about 200km apparently) where you can fly in by seaplane and there are public viewing platforms where you can watch grizzlies without the cost of tour places like Great Bear Lodge or Knight's Inlet. If I remember where it was I will drop you a PM.

Thanks. Now that would be well worth it. I've spent too much on gear and can't afford expensive tours.

However, for not much more than the cost of gas, the old motorhome because it's only 22' long allows us to visit most out of the way places in touring the west and with good solar up top we have enough AC power to not be totally roughing it. Lucky to live close to the mountains and BC.

Jack

 

[Mikehit]

Just spoke with the good wife and the place was Bella Coola and it not where I thought it was - instead it is on the western edge of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park which means that Hada Gwaii will have you in the right region and you can get there by road.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Kerry B, lovely and what an experience.

Jack

 

[Mikehit]

Lovely shot,Kerry. When we were in Canada earlier in the month, we met a guy who is one of the managers for a wildlife tour company and he raved about the Pantanal. A close run thing with there and tigers in India...

 

[Jack Douglas]

Just spoke with the good wife and the place was Bella Coola and it not where I thought it was - instead it is on the western edge of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park which means that Hada Gwaii will have you in the right region and you can get there by road.

Thanks! Next trip, we will be more aware of many things and hopefully can get over to that region since it's not too far. It might sound funny, but I was too focused on shooting eagles and that influenced our one month holiday excessively. When I finally found the right place I had more than enough eagle opportunities, but that didn't happen until near the end of our trip. Regardless, just wondering around country like that is good for the soul.

Jack

 

[Kerry B]

Lovely shot,Kerry. When we were in Canada earlier in the month, we met a guy who is one of the managers for a wildlife tour company and he raved about the Pantanal. A close run thing with there and tigers in India...

Many thanks, the Pantanal is wonderful, great sightings of Jaguar and River Otters as well as loads of birds. Great experience.

 

[scottkinfw]

Thank you Jack.

These were taken in Mala Mala, South Africa, adjacent to Kruger National Park.

Had great luck seeing 8 leopards, got some night shots, and watched a pair mate. My guide said he had never seen mating in the 16 years he has been a guide.

Scott

 

[jmeyer]

7D MKII, EF500 F4 and 1.4xIII

Coyote at a local park, 12:30pm, just watching local traffic drive by.

 

[Click]

So fortunate to see Jaguar on my recent trip to the Pantanal.

Great shot, Kerry. 8)

 

[eml58]

Leopard at sunrise in Mala Mala, South Africa
Lilac Breasted Roller, preening

Nice Scott, good to see you had the opportunity to see Leopards in their element, Mala Mala & Londolozi remain the best places I've found to date to see Leopards in Africa.

 

[eml58]

So fortunate to see Jaguar on my recent trip to the Pantanal.

Wonderful & well shot, yet to see one, always hopeful in the future.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi jmeyer.
Nice shot, striking pose.

Cheers, Graham.

7D MKII, EF500 F4 and 1.4xIII

Coyote at a local park, 12:30pm, just watching local traffic drive by.

 

[Kerry B]

Kerry B, lovely and what an experience.

Jack

Thanks Jack, yes an experience I will never forget.

 

[Kerry B]

This was one of the images of a Giant River Otter I wanted to take, head out of the water looking at me and so close to the boat. Pantanal.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Now, that's a portrait. He looks so fore lorn, like you should just put both hands on the sides of his head and give him a big kiss.

Jack

 

[Eldar]

Leopard from Serengeti.

5DSR + 600 f4L IS II