Dipping into the archives a bit to share some remaining photos from my Madagascar collection. I wouldn’t mind visiting there again some day, such a unique place.
Category: General Wildlife
And now for some videos… The first video is from the encounter with the sea otter mom and her baby that I got to watch for a while at the Breakwater jetty, it was a bit rainy and windy, but I did the best I…
When mom is taking care of the babies definitely was extra extra cute!
There were plenty of babies around, which definitely increased the cuteness levels… Fun fact – baby sea otter fur is so dense that they literally can’t sink and I don’t think they can even intentionally swim down, so it is a safety thing for the…
I’ve got a couple days worth of Sea Otter photos, and they’re just going to get more and more adorable, so let’s get to it…
On another non-diving day in Monterey, we took a short trip to Pinnacles National Park. We didn’t have a ton of time, so I suggested we hike the Balconies Cliffs and Cave Trail which was a rather cool trail with a nice section through some…
A less common gallinule, I only got to see a couple of these Grey-headed Swamphens while in Florida…
I’m pretty sure this is a couple Greater Yellowlegs (there are also Lesser Yellowlegs, but the Merlin app says they are rare for the area I took this photo). The shallow and calm waters worked perfectly for some nice reflection shots…
Some fiddler crabs doing what fiddler crabs do… Filmed 2021.05.22 at Wormsloe in Savannah, GA.
Though not flashy, these Ruddy Ducks were another “new to me” species I photographed at Arcata Marshes in California. The first three are males in their winter colors (apparently their bills turn a baby blue color during breeding season) and the last one is either…
I was not expecting to find lizards in Muir Woods, but indeed there were plenty of them to be found…
A couple different species of Gallinules here. Both Common and Purple. The Common Gallinules seem to have only the red on their forehead crest and have a white strip on their sides, while the Purple Gallinules have the light blue on their foreheads and tend…