Wildlife: show us your walk on the wild side and post your wild animal photos

[PacNWMike]

@Will Focus

Your fox kits are several weeks younger than the dens here. Nice shooting.

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

Are you bored of baby fox pictures yet? I hope not because I caught these images today on the way home. As many of you know, I have been watching a fox den in hopes of catching the mom and her babies together. It's become a tougher task than I anticipated. I did learn something today that surprised me. For weeks I've been watching one entrance to the den. Well, today I found out there are at least three entrances within 50 yards of one another. Over the next few days or weeks I'll now be keeping a closer eye on activity 'in the vicinity' of the openings so as not to be out foxed.

Below are images of two different babies today. The top two images are of one of them, and the last one who looks like she's posing for a senior picture is another.
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Well done!

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

Time for some mountain goats.

They often look at you like you have 2 heads while traipsing through their domain -




Or they pay you no attention, as they’re too busy licking rocks -


Or, they insist on making rude faces at you -


Or simply want to block your path-


Or show you their butts-


Or are too busy showing off-


Some are just busy being parents-


They never mind hanging out-



But rarely like to strike the perfect pose-

 

[Barking]

Irish Hares

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[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

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So they drink, swear and when they get itchy noses they ready up for a fight?
(PS. I am guessing you made the images with vintage glass, something at 200 to 400mm, single or possibly multi-coated but not the best of quality? That rendition feels typical for such lenses)

 

[Barking]

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So they drink, swear and when they get itchy noses they ready up for a fight?
(PS. I am guessing you made the images with vintage glass, something at 200 to 400mm, single or possibly multi-coated but not the best of quality? That rendition feels typical for such lenses)

I use an EM5 with a Panasonic Lumix 45-200...the 2nd frame is heavily cropped...shot at about 100m (handheld).

 

[Anderle]

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From 2018 - Capra ibex
Bavarian alps

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

I use an EM5 with a Panasonic Lumix 45-200...the 2nd frame is heavily cropped...shot at about 100m (handheld).

Wow ... if I'm wrong I am very wrong ... strang rendition though, the direction of light looks around high noon (every single Overwatch characters started running in terror at the sound of THE WHISTLE ) so there should be plenty of light for high shutter speed and low ISO with even a bit of stop down on the aperture. Well, I should get back my Panny 45-200mm (that was kindly donated by a fellow community member when I was in bad need) from a failed attempt of evilBay listing and I will test and compare that lens with my Panny Leica 50-200mm out of curiosity.

 

[Barking]

Wow ... if I'm wrong I am very wrong ... strang rendition though, the direction of light looks around high noon (every single Overwatch characters started running in terror at the sound of THE WHISTLE ) so there should be plenty of light for high shutter speed and low ISO with even a bit of stop down on the aperture. Well, I should get back my Panny 45-200mm (that was kindly donated by a fellow community member when I was in bad need) from a failed attempt of evilBay listing and I will test and compare that lens with my Panny Leica 50-200mm out of curiosity.

Hi..it probably was late morning...used shutter priority, but haven't got the exit to hand (I use LR4 and then export to Google photos which eradicated the data!!). When I next load the PC I'll dig the exit out.

I used to have an Olympus 40-150... until I dropped it! The Panny is a more flexible lens imho...no perceived loss at 200..but you have to be more precise with focussing.

 

[Barking]

Hi..it probably was late morning...used shutter priority, but haven't got the exit to hand (I use LR4 and then export to Google photos which eradicated the data!!). When I next load the PC I'll dig the exit out.

I used to have an Olympus 40-150... until I dropped it! The Panny is a more flexible lens imho...no perceived loss at 200..but you have to be more precise with focussing.

Have now found the original exit...on shutter priority..1/4000, iso 1000 f5.6

Not sure why it would need iso 1000..?

 

[L0n3Gr3yW0lf]

Have now found the original exit...on shutter priority..1/4000, iso 1000 f5.6

Not sure why it would need iso 1000..?

1/4000 is quite high for bunnies, probably why it pushed your ISO to 1000 (though it shouldn’t look to bad even 1000). Maybe it was Auto ISO.

 

[Barking]

1/4000 is quite high for bunnies, probably why it pushed your ISO to 1000 (though it should look to bad even 1000). Maybe it was Auto ISO.

Yes, it was auto ISO

 

[smartiepants]

getting better but nothing like Wills

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visitor-7 by Martin Grindley, on Flickr

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these were taken with a remote trigger through a window with a 17mm 1.8 lens so have cropped them a bit

 

[Mountain_Man_79]

So these aren’t the best photos, but this guy caught me by surprise. I was out for hike, and he saw me before I saw him; after he had already decided to run up to me -



And he kept coming closer and closer. When he was about 10’ away, I yelled at him to stop. It was clearly unusual behavior, and I was concerned he could be rabid. In hindsight I don’t believe he was, he was just friendly and curious, and probably wondering if I had anything tasty on me. Either way, I got the impression if I hadn’t yelled at him, he would’ve continued right up to me, and would have been smelling my shoes or something.



So he just stood there for awhile and looked a little dejected that I had yelled at him. He got bored after a few moments and trotted off. But I’ve been in love with foxes ever since.

 

[AmstelBright]

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[moonraker]

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[WhidbeyLVR]

So these aren’t the best photos, but this guy caught me by surprise. I was out for hike, and he saw me before I saw him; after he had already decided to run up to me -

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And he kept coming closer and closer. When he was about 10’ away, I yelled at him to stop. It was clearly unusual behavior, and I was concerned he could be rabid. In hindsight I don’t believe he was, he was just friendly and curious, and probably wondering if I had anything tasty on me. Either way, I got the impression if I hadn’t yelled at him, he would’ve continued right up to me, and would have been smelling my shoes or something.

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So he just stood there for awhile and looked a little dejected that I had yelled at him. He got bored after a few moments and trotted off. But I’ve been in love with foxes ever since.

I see picnic/camp tables in the background. Perhaps he was used to getting handouts or leftovers.

 

[AmstelBright]

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Wet feet by AmstelBright, on Flickr

 

[smartiepants]

more and there getting braver but i'm suffering from noise at 1600 ISO and the lack of light at its late evening when they visit, most are shot at 30th sec at 1.8 and they dont stay still for long!!

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[coaltrain]

I gave up on pixel peeping....so looking at your images how they are shown here in the forum they look great! You're shooting in low light - at least what I consider low light for the m4/3 system compared to a full frame sensor. I think you did very well under the conditions!