Wildlife Photography

[Tucson T4R]

Aravaipa Canyon Wild Things

Camping near Aravaipa canyon last week gave me to the opportunity to go in search of the wild things. I was hoping to capture some Coatimundi who live in the area but decided to stay hidden from me on this trip. :-(

Here are a few of the Javalina, Turkey and Deer we saw.

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This one was funny. I took a shot of the deer but didn't even see the second one laying down on the right until I was processing the image. :rofl

 

[roverrocks]

A pair of American Coots on Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah a few days ago.

 

[Bridger]

 

[Pathfinder]

2 lions in the rain.... the rain is kind of hard to see at Web display size, but it is there

 

[graynomad]

King of beasts they may be, but in the rain they look more bedraggled and sorry for themselves than most animals.

Where was this taken?

 

[Pathfinder]

Lewa Conservancy in northern Kenya

They do look kind of bedraggled, don't they? They were not really happy in the rain.

 

[graynomad]

Thanks, I loved Kenya, must try to get back there one day.

I think the reason lions (especially males) look worse in the rain than other animals is that they have more to lose, ie their mane changes from being their crowning glory to a wet mop

Nice shot BTW, you can just see the rain here but I imagine at higher res or as a print it would show nicely and certainly help give context to their appearance.

 

[Pathfinder]

Thank you. I thought the lions were later in the same day than these zebras, but my memory was wrong; exif shows the lions were a couple days later than these wet zebras. It was raining hard for these zebras.

 

[graynomad]

Funny how animals don't care about rain, I guess they have never had a choice. The wallabies around us do have shelter and even make use of it on occasion, but never when it's raining, they just sit outside. Go figure.

 

[yotantexas]

Big Bend last year.

 

[yotantexas]

Beach lizard

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[yotantexas]

Red tail hawk



Butterfly

 

[yotantexas]

Big Colorado bull. This was a cool encounter.

 

[robgendreau]

 

[graynomad]

Let's play spot the boar