Photography- one photo a day

[sshhh]

Wolverine, marten, and that little white one is an ermine.

That’s great! Canada has some of the greatest trapping country. Registered traplines make it difficult for a new trapper though.

Cool!

Yeah it does. I'll try and get my foot in the door by just bein a helper find someone with a line that needs a hand just to learn. You up in AK?

 

[dgfavor]

that little white one is an ermine.

I grunted and rattled in an ermine last fall...wrong kinda whitetail!

 

[sshhh]

 

[JohnMC]

Osprey are one of my favorite birds to photograph, they are back in town. Next time I’ll post a couple of them with fish.

 

[dgfavor]

Well crap. Thought maybe I was going to join the Jr. Condor photo club with a killer shot on a turkey vulture today. Not. I'll just add them to my blurry-brown-blobs-in-flight files. I shoulda played dead to see if it would come closer for a better shot.

One blob just isn't enough:

I was actually on the hunt for a rutted up, strutting blue grouse photo but failed in that quest also. I'd been really pissed if I found one and screwed that up! Combo ruck/blue grouse/Jr. Condor outing:

 

[AKDoc]

Well crap. Thought maybe I was going to join the Jr. Condor photo club with a killer shot on a turkey vulture today. Not. I'll just add them to my blurry-brown-blobs-in-flight files. I shoulda played dead to see if it would come closer for a better shot.

One blob just isn't enough:

I was actually on the hunt for a rutted up, strutting blue grouse photo but failed in that quest also. I'd been really pissed if I found one and screwed that up! Combo ruck/blue grouse/Jr. Condor outing:

I also recently got a blurry photo of a turkey vulture when we were on the Amazon River last month.
He was pretty high above...it was the best I could do with my old Nikon telephoto lense...

 

[JohnMC]

 

[wesfromky]

 

[wowzers]

 

[wesfromky]

 

[dgfavor]

Headin' to the park this week armed with binos, spotters, long lenses, wide angle lenses, and hope...we'll see if we can capture anything interesting.

Couple years ago we watched, over the course of a few days, this female wolf ferrying her litter of pups a couple miles from their Slough Cr den, down across the Lamar river, and up onto the bench below Specimen where they raised the pups to more maturity. Anyway, she had been crossing at the bridge and the crowds grew each day to where it became obstructive. On this day I saw her head coming thru the low sage then halt on the bluff above the bridge. I told my wife we needed to move back up across the flats away from the bridge because she was looking for alternative route. We moved back and I set up my spotter with phone to video. A car pulled up next to me and asked me what we were seeing and I told them to pull over right where they are at and they would likely see something they'll never see again. At that moment I decided to switch to my still camera with 70-300mm lens - it was on landscape settings from the day prior. Right then she popped out literally 50 feet in front of the people I had told to stop and ran right in front of them. I just sprayed and prayed with the settings my camera was on and not good photo quality at all but still a good memory capture maybe more because it caught the excitement of the couple than the critters! That couple ran over and hugged me, thrilled at seeing a wolf carrying a puppy jog right past them. That's them on the right side of the road and all the folks at the bridge looking the wrong way.

Maybe we'll capture something to post this week!

 

[Supercubtrapper]

Chugach Mountains in August

 

[Xperimental]

 

[Brookj]

 

[wesfromky]

still a good memory capture maybe more because it caught the excitement of the couple than the critters! That couple ran over and hugged me, thrilled at seeing a wolf carrying a puppy jog right past them.

Probably 30+ people have seen their first wild wolf or grizzly through my scope in the last year. Pretty cool to be a part of it.

 

[sshhh]

 

[AK Troutbum]

Chugach Mountains in August View attachment 1051157

Looks like clouds to me. Sorry, not trying to offend, just making a joke.


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[dgfavor]

Probably 30+ people have seen their first wild wolf or grizzly through my scope in the last year. Pretty cool to be a part of it.

Right on! Good stuff! I remember first grizzly I ever saw as well. The thing that really struck me was the fact it was a very big boar nearly completely obscured, except for occasionally raising his head from crunching on a bison calf, in barely knee high sage for as far as you could see, maybe 75yds off the road. A person could easily think there was not a creature living anywhere in the area and walk right up on him. Reminded me of a bunch of places I hunt, fish, etc. all the time and how easy it would be to just stumble up on a slumbering griz.

I'm a griz...now I'm a rock... I do think there is some deep primitive DNA code that recognizes that distinct shape in the landscape as danger and gets our "flight or fight" mech stirred up!

Slumbering griz just outside a bathroom at GTNP...:

 

[Glendine]

Sika Stag

 

[Frosty82]