had this moth with deformed wings fall out of a tree onto me, couldnt fly at all, only flutter and fall
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So sad…a young turtle dead on the road. This sort of thing has always hit me especially hard after mine died last Christmas 
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Here is one that tugged at ye ole heart strings for certain. I wished I could just walk up to this beautiful deer and start removing the invasion. But, I know better and it was on the other side of river so there was no way I could get to it any way. Still wish I could have helped.
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Oh, poor deer. But I’m impressed that you got those close-up shots from the other side of the river!
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Poor dear 
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This was sad to see, although I am very curious what did this.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/299336557
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I have a Nikon P1000 which has awesome zoom capabilities for things that are distant. I love this about the camera. It is terrible about zooming in on things that are already close though. You can do it but then in won’t focus. So it is terrible at say bug photos. I have been getting more and more into bugs so would love to get a bug camera. Sadly, not in the budget.
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My camera is a Panasonic Lumix; it zooms a lot too! But yeah, bug photos are kind of out of question
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Even if you narrow it to roadkill and window collisions, and human introduced non-native predators (feral cats, rats) – that would cover an enormous swath of artificially origined creature cruelty, injury and death.
Especially if you don’t call natural predation cruelty (that is preventable afflicted pain), just, well… natural!
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I can get okay pics of bugs sometimes. I zoom in as much as the camera will let me and still focus. Then at home I can zoom in some more and then sharpen. But I would love to be able to get better images of bugs.
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Yeah, my macro setting is terrible; very grainy, so I rarely use it. I just use the regular settings, but then I have the issue that my camera always focuses beyond the bug. And then I have to find the right distance and the right amount of zoom, and whatnot, and by then the bug might have left. My old camera was a Canon, and it was better for close-ups. Oh, well, at least I’ve gotten really good at birds!
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I agree, we have taken away much of their habitat, their food sources, and their safety, with, as you said, non-natives, roadkill, window collisions, and anyone want to know just how many bats are killed by wind turbines? They fly towards it expecting it is a source of food, since it makes a sound similar to the wings of a moth. Then they fly right into the moving turbines. What a horrible way to go! And then hunting just for the point of hunting, taking animals as pets when they should not be; then discarding them into the wild…there are so many ways we have destroyed the lives of other animals.
I had a couple of Canons over the years. One was especially good at bug photos but it did not have an eye piece so you had to find your subject on the screen. I did not like that and eventually gave the camera away after getting a new one. I sometimes wish I had kept it. Agreed on the extra time spent getting zoom just right has caused many lost photo ops.
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Yeah, that was my first camera too, though I didn’t mind using the screen. I guess there’s always a tradeoff!
The screens are very very useful for photographic awkward things and compensating for dark macro lenses, but having very recently switched to mirrorless, I really really miss looking through the viewfinder, it transports you into another world.
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Definitely; there are pros and cons to each kind of camera!!
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Just a reminder to please keep posts on the main topic of the thread. In this case, the original post is about sharing
but this discussion appears to have veered into photographic equipment. There are many threads (active and closed) that could be used for a conversation on this topic, or a new one could be created. Thanks!
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One documentary about fauna in Chernobyl affected me very much, and made me realize how bad is the effect we have on the rest of nature.
It followed a biologist that studied the effects of radiation in the local fauna. One big problem he faced while studying the (very bad of course) effects of radiation was that even with lots of cancer in the little animals, all the wild and feral populations were thriving because of the lack of humans.
Maybe the lives of the animals were shorter, but more of them managed to live and reproduce after the explosion than before, and some were adapting to radiation.
Even the feral descendants of the abandoned cats were thriving! We are worst than radiation.
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Chowing down or laying egg into?
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