Album Wildlife

[John Goering]

Moose encounters. This guy keeps messing up my irrigation line intake. Adopted wallow. Geeezzze are those critters big, especially up close.

 

[wsp_scott]

The family went to the US Virgin Islands for Xmas 2024. I had seen a photo of a sea turtle and decided that I wanted to get my own, but I figured I would not be lucky. Well it turns out the Salt Pond Bay had a bunch of them hanging out ignoring all of the tourists swimming around them. The water was about 15 feet deep, so easy to photograph them once you found one.

The rays on the other hand move fast, very hard to photograph

The eels don't stop and pose either

Not a bad way to spend a day in December

 

[John Goering]

Yesterday's close encounter

 

[TractorDoc]

Earlier this year I was mowing the field behind my office building. I noticed a lot of milkweed plants so I zigzagged around the larger stands leaving a patchwork of tall/short stubble (much to my business partners confusion -- perhaps he thought I was tipsy).

Here we are a bit later in the year and I think my efforts are bearing. . . caterpillars. I've noticed a number of Monarch butterflies hovering around and I know they utilize the milkweed.

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[SteveR]

We enjoyed watching marmots while on a hiking trip along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. There were at least 6 of them in a colony with many holes dug into the tundra on a hillside.

 

[Ugly]

Almost stepped on this guy.
How many do you see?

 

[SteveR]

A family of 4 grizzlies provided a couple of minutes of entertainment from the car as they casually fed on berries at roadside on Wednesday.
I didn't manage to get all 4 in the frame at once as they moved in and out of view:


Making the most of a good berry crop this summer:

Looking to be in good shape for winter. Thankfully they are protected here in the provincial park: