Category: felids

Send in your Christmas cat photos

December 12, 2025 • 9:15 am

Yes, it’s that time of year again: time to send in photos of your Christmas cats (or, if you have a Jewish cat, a Hanukkah-themed photo). If I get twenty pictures, I’ll put them together for a Christmas Day/beginning of Koynezaa post.

The rules are simple:

a. Email me a photo of your moggy/moggies with a Christmas theme. If you don’t know where to send them, go here

b. One picture per customer, even if you have multiple cats.

c.  Give the name or names of the cats, and say a few words about them.

Have them to me by Dec. 23 or so.  Now’s the time to make your cat famous and show it off.

Thanks!

Readers’ wildlife photos

October 14, 2025 • 8:15 am

Charles Dunlop sent some photos with a short intro.  His brief IDs (without species names) are below, and click to enlarge the photos. (I’ve linked to species when I can identify them, but readers can help in the comments.)

Attached are some photos that I took in Costa Rica in 2019. 

Black-bellied hummingbird:

 

Blue Morpho butterfly:

Big Cats, La Paz:

Jaguar, La Paz:

Frog, La Paz:

Resplendent Quetzal:

Millipede:

Bananaquit:

Crab:

Iguana sp.:

Crocodile:

Readers’ wildlife videos

September 19, 2025 • 8:15 am

I was about to post the sad news that we have only one batch of photos left, which is true, but then I remembered that Tara Tanaka in Florida gave me permission to show her videos, and she takes good ones. Going to her Vimeo page, I found two new ones that haven’t appeared here. So here they are, with Tara’s captions notes indented. Be sure to enlarge the videos by clicking on them and then on the four arrows at the bottom right.

However, I still need photos if this feature is to survive. I’ll be leaving Monday for a week, so please get some together and send them to me when you can. Thanks!

Tara’s Flickr page is here and her Vimeo page is here.

2025-05-25 Early morning surprise in the swamp – alligators mating

2025-06-12: Male bobcat from the living room window: