Here’s another of the bobcat images that my camera trap captured back in September. My surveillance cams have seen them a few times since then, but the cats have successfully avoided any more self-portraits. Here’s hoping the winter brings another image or two. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 20mm lens, ISO 500, f/14 at 1/200th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitors and three remote flash units.
I had mentioned in a previous post that pygmy marmosets are only five inches in length, not including the tail. Here you can see the additional eight inches of tail. This guy was out doing what they do — gnawing holes in trees to eat the resultant tree gum. They also eat nectar and fruit, and insects that are attracted to the sap holes they produce. Photographed in the northern Amazon basin of Peru. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 800, f/5.6 at 1/125th of a second, Godox V860iii fill flash.
Here’s another mushroom landscape from the Peruvian Amazon using my wide-angle macro lens. I couldn’t identify the exact species of fungi, but to me they kind of looked like potato chips. Nikon D850 with Laowa 15mm wide-angle macro lens, ISO 500, f/22 at 1/5th of a second, Godox V860iii flash with Westcott soft box.
A baby Gursky’s spectral tarsier clings to its mother as she heads out for a night of hunting grasshoppers and other Indonesian delicacies. When I captured this image back in 2009, the Gursky’s version of the spectral tarsier wasn’t yet identified as a separate species. That happened in 2017 when Dr. Sharon Gursky’s studies determined that differences in genetics, vocalizations, and fur color warranted the split. Tarsiers are small, nocturnal primates that live in Southeast Asia. The Gursky’s lives only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 260mm) ISO 200, f/8 at 1/60th of a second, with two Nikon SB-800 flash units.
It was a windy day in the Falkland Islands and this king penguin was coping with all the blowing sand. Needless to say, I was thirty feet away in about the same position as the penguin, dealing with the same wind and sand. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/7.1 at 1/200th of a second.
If there’s one thing meerkats are great at, it’s surveillance. There’s always a group on guard, taking their turn to safeguard the mob (that’s what a group of meerkats is officially called). Usually they’re a bit closer together, but they must have felt a need to spread out to get a better look at any would-be predators. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 110mm) ISO 400, f/22 at 1/160th of a second.
Here’s one from the backyard. This baby raccoon was following Mom across the log when he/she stopped to take a look at the camera box. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 20mm lens, ISO 500, f/11 at 1/60th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flashes.
I posted a wide-angle shot of this frog a few weeks ago. Here’s more of a macro look. The scientific name for this frog is Ranitomeya flavovittata and surprisingly it doesn’t have any common name. The guides simply referred to it as the yellow one. They live inside bromeliad plants where water pools at the center of the leaves. Nikon D850 with Nikkor 105mm macro lens, ISO 400, f/8 at 1/60th of a second, Godox V860iii flash with Westcott soft box.
Even with all the colorful birds in the Peruvian Amazon, this guy was one of my favorites — the appropriately named slate-colored hawk. For the first few days, I thought my guide was saying slight-colored hawk, which I found amusing until I realized the actual name. We saw quite a few of them as they like to perch in trees along the river’s edge, always on the look out for frogs, snakes, crabs as well as small mammals to hunt. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 400, f/5.6 at 1/50th of a second, Godox V860iii fill flash.
Of the four species of monkey I photographed on this recent trip to Peru, the red howlers were the only species that I’ve photographed in the past. I saw them in both Bolivia and Brazil. This is a mated pair, the male in the front. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1600, f/5.6 at 1/1600th of a second, Godox V860iii fill flash.