This will be my last post for two weeks as I head out on vacation this weekend (a non-wildlife trip for the first time in a while — island hopping in Croatia — but I’ll still try and bring back some interesting shots).
As for the ever popular creature above, I posted a similar shot with a tighter crop of this tarsier a while ago, but I think I like this wider crop and lighting better. This is one of the shots that I took with a long exposure to use ambient light and the light of the moon, rather than flash (the tarsier was still just long enough to get the shot). Enjoy, and check back in a couple of weeks.
Not a good shot technically, but this was the best I could do with the jungle cats of India. These elusive felines aren’t much bigger than a house cat. In fact, as you can see, they look very similar to the average domestic cat. This one was in Kanha National Park in Madhya, Pradesh in central India.
This leopard was in an area of the Masai Mara that didn’t allow off-road driving. We watched from quite a distance trying to predict which way she would move. Several other vehicles were in the area and we decided to distance ourselves as much as possible from them. It was the right decision. When the leopard finally started to move she came right toward us, passing about ten feet from our vehicle and allowing me to get some nice close ups.
I also came across quite a few of these California ground squirrels last weekend in La Jolla. They were quite common on the cliffs along the beach. They obviously eat well. This one, in fact, may have been the fattest squirrel I’ve ever seen.
Life appears good for this young harbor seal resting on shore at Children’s Pool Beach in La Jolla (just north of San Diego, California). The beach, however, has become a legal battleground between seal advocates on the one hand, and a faction of local residents on the other who want to return the beach to its previous life as a safe place to swim for children. I was down there this past weekend and was able to get a lot of good shots of the sixty or so seals that were on the beach and swimming in the water. More on these seals and the ongoing battle in a future post.
When you’re a polar bear, there’s really not much to do while waiting for the ice to freeze. These two males spent days playfighting and otherwise hanging around as they patiently waited for the Hudson Bay to freeze over so that they might journey out to hunt for seals.
There are three kinds of zebras in Africa. This is a Grevy’s zebra, the largest as well as the most endangered of the three. Unlike other zebras, the Grevy’s stripes do not extend to the belly. The two birds are called glossy starlings. They are quite common throughout much of Africa.
Some of the oldest photos that I have in my collection are of Alaskan brown bears. Alaska (because of its bears) is one of the places that I really want to get back to as soon as possible to update and refresh what I photographed way back then. This mother bear had two cubs and she was fishing for salmon in this marshy area of Katmai National Park.
I’ve posted several pictures of black crested macaques in the past. Here’s yet another shot of these amazing monkeys. They are listed as critically endangered by the IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) which is the worldwide authority on the status of all species. They live in the same forests of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia as the tarsiers that I often post. The macaques rule by day and the tarsiers take over at night.
I know someone who likes doves. It’s her birthday today, so this one is for her. It’s not just any ordinary dove… this is an emerald spotted wood dove. It was photographed in Olare Orok, Kenya, just north of the Masai Mara. Enjoy — and happy birthday.
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This will be my last post for two weeks as I head out on vacation this weekend (a non-wildlife trip for the first time in a while — island hopping in Croatia — but I’ll still try and bring back some interesting shots).
