Readers’ wildlife photos

December 5, 2018 • 7:45 am

We have some photos by two people today. The first is from reader Gilbert Klapper, who send birds and antelopes.  His notes are indented:

Here are three photos of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) taken in Key West in 2017.

Here are two from Yellowstone Park taken in 2005: Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) and a Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Not “photoshopped.”

And three Idaho landscapes from Stephen Barnard:

 

25 thoughts on “Readers’ wildlife photos”

  2. Thank you to these photographers for giving the locations where the photos were taken. Often there is no hint of even a general location (northwest U.S., for example). Readers of these posts might like to go to some of the locations or at least read more about them, but cannot when they are not given!

    1. A quick look at the images does not reveal any GPS or other location data, but that may be because (1) it wasn’t recorded by the camera (a Canon whose other details I didn’t note) or an add-on, or (2) WordPress strips such data between the upload and the publish. The latter is, I believe, a tactic used by Facebook who I assume keep the location data for themselves but by default don’t send it too users. At least not since some messy or fatal consequences whose details I forget.

      1. I don’t include GPS in the metadata, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. (A favorite New Zealand trout-fishing guide got into an embarrassing fix that way, giving up prime spots to foreign intruders).

        2. Knowing of the potential problem is half – maybe more – of the problem.
          Which will do nothing to abate the flood of camera-phone images posted hourly to InsterTindr or GrindrFace leaking information about the poster’s location.

  3. Lovely pictures.
    In the Idaho landscapes what is the purpose or significance of the fence with the circular spacers? I am not familiar with this type of fence or indeed is it actually a fence?
    Help please.

    1. It’s not a fence. It’s a wheel line for irrigation. The moose and elk can jump over it with ease. In fact, I have a video of one of these moose jumping it a few minutes after I shot the photo.

  4. We see the Great white pelican here in Idaho. Very similar except for color. They are wonderful to watch. They fly and glide easily and dip for fish with their gigantic beaks.

    2. I’m assuming you’re referring to the last photo, darwinwins. It’s a sunset photo. That’s an important distinction. The atmospheric effect is due to cool water from the creek evaporating into the warmer late afternoon air.

  9. I love the big-horn and pronghorn shots…Wyoming natives. There are actually more pronghorn in Wyoming than humans.

    Lovely landscapes…prompting me to say: brrrrrr.

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