Your best photos of the week!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337588347

Eastern Bluebird https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338030905

I spent a good 8 hours outside with my camera this weekend! Here are some of my favorites!

What a beautiful photo! I love how the croc is just slumped by the side of the water, drinking in the sun.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338128286

Lovely! That egret is especially gorgeous

That pose is awesome! I love the little guy’s expression!

Oh. My god. That is genuinely an insanely cool photo. Thats awesome dude!

I know what you mean. I love catching them with interesting expressions (or in interesting poses). Still have not gotten one in mid-wahoo, but that’s a goal for this year.

I absolutely love the Coot in mid-splash!

The splashing coot is truly a masterpiece!

Well it was Valentine’s Day so..

A lot of unsuccessful birding the past few days but the female red-winged blackbird and the vultures turned out really nice!

That is SO pretty! Amazing photo!!

Who eats whom?? The whimbrel was fighting for quite a while with the crab, only when I was processing the photos I saw that the crab got hold of the beak as well. I enlarged it, so it’s technically not perfect.

That was on Sunday, so Monday is another week - and finally my first butterfly of the year!

One day early

Okay, now I finally have something. After getting 13+ inches of snow, it finally began to melt. So, I thought why not search for some springtails since the snow wasn’t too thick. Not just did I find a bunch of springtails, while clumsily stomping around, I saw this juvenile Shizocosa avida on the snow. It was relatively sluggish since it was so cold, and after spending several minutes photographing it, I placed it into a warmer, open grass patch. I meant to add the photo sooner, but my usual photo editor (Darktable) kept crashing.

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque from the Angkor Wat Temple Complex in Cambodia. He stole the water out of a tourist’s hand, bit the top off, and enjoyed a cool drink before being mugged by another macaque who stole his water.

I love the first photo!

Some lovely Barred Owl photos! Each of the pictures were edited by a good friend of mine.

Wow, the first one is absolute perfection.