Wildlife Photography

[HomesteaderWife]

@Granny Hatchet - That is a Pileated Woodpecker! They're big, beautiful, and pretty noisy! I believe this in the photo is a female with the lack of red on cheeks. I have a video of a male this past year:

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Thank you ! Yes, very big and loud ! And beautiful.

 

[Anime2lover]

I haven't been much lately but I really enjoy taking wildlife pics. I searched on here and didn't find a thread dedicated to it so I figured I would start one.

Anybody out there who likes taking pics of wildlife? Feel free to share them here.

Cool thread.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Not wildlife but Im sure theres something frozen in there somewhere. Hahaha
My wildlife pictures are chalk.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

Love the second and third ones

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Love the second and third ones

You do ? Thank you. Just a regular digital camera. I barely know how to use. LOL

 

[Offshoreorca]

Wildlife photography is my dearest hobby - I study whales and dolphins, which involves a lot of photo identification (where my passion started). Here's one from last summer!

 

[mdees88]

Great pic! Don't see many whales down here in the Gulf of Mexico.

I was fishing offshore one day several years ago when out of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like a huge forked tail going into the water and a ginormous splash. I've always thought it was a whale but we have a lot of manta rays so it was probably a big one that had jumped out of the water....

 

[Offshoreorca]

Great pic! Don't see many whales down here in the Gulf of Mexico.

I was fishing offshore one day several years ago when out of the corner of my eye I saw what looked like a huge forked tail going into the water and a ginormous splash. I've always thought it was a whale but we have a lot of manta rays so it was probably a big one that had jumped out of the water....

Bottlenose dolphins are most common along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but the larger whales are definitely scarce close to shore. I was down in the Caribbean tracking/studying sperm whales for the month of February - it's amazing how much life there is south of the Gulf! It seems that many of the Gulf of Mexico whale populations are small and live offshore, which is why they aren't seen too often. The rays can definitely breach impressively - I caught one on camera jumping in amongst some dolphins a few years back.