Album Wildlife

[Perry]

Sucks he was not in a tree but man I love their eyes!

 

[John Morrow]

Elk in Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA

 

[OwenM]

Meow...

 

[John Morrow]

Goats by John Morrow, on Flickr

 

[Perry]

This young one was being good laying so still for me ...

 

[kwc]

Just a couple of the wildlife we saw last week ...

photos credit to Jackie (my wife). We were fairly close to the coyotes but they never saw us. Jackie took a short video of them crossing the stream.

 

[wsp_scott]

"The endangered Key deer is the smallest subspecies of the North American white-tailed deer. They are the only large herbivore in the Florida Keys and can be found in every habitat, where they feed on dozens of native plant species. Despite the absence of predators, Key deer retain the characteristic behavior of raising their tails when alarmed, revealing the white fur underneath."

"The largest males typically stand only about 1 meter at the shoulder and weigh a maximum of around 85 lbs. Females are smaller, weighing on average 65 pounds."

Key Deer - National Key Deer Refuge - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

www.fws.gov

We were taking our time getting to Key West since we had an afternoon check-in. Did a short hike and drove around looking for Key Deer. I saw a car stopped on a side road and thought "bear jam" like Yellowstone so I turned around and saw a woman feeding a deer, I yelled out my window that it was illegal and she jumped in the car and drove away. My kids new favorite word is "Touron" (tourist/moron)

The deer stood still while I took a couple photos and then we left it in peace and drove away.

 

[Yvonne]

I was more than happy to find a Great Gray Owl on my hike back from Heart Lake in Yellowstone.

 

[Yvonne]

a few Yellowstone marmots

these guys were as slow-moving as I was in 90+ degree weather

siesta time

 

[Yvonne]

Prairie Falcon sitting on a rock and posing for me

 

[Yvonne]

same Pronghorn buck I see every year.
It's so comfortable around me that it walks up to me and then lays down in the sagebrush about ten feet away