TBers Photos

[DesertFox]

And spent a day and a half scratching the surface of the amazing Yosemite National Park. This place is incredible!

 

[DesertFox]

With just a few hours before getting my plane home, we were just about to leave Yosemite when we saw a couple of people looking excitedly at something in the trees... bears! I've always wanted to see bears in the wild and have even found bear shit so fresh it was steaming here in Arizona, but this was my first encounter. I was looking directly into the light so the photos are a bit ropey, but it was quite a way to end the trip.







These are Black Bears by the way, the smaller of the North American bears, but still, you wouldn't mess with one. I was probably a bit too close in my usual Steve Irwin "the twat's gonna get what's coming one day" style

Anyway, bloody great holiday. I can recommend it! :icon_bigg

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

great pics dessie!!!

 

[muzzysgal]

Absolutely superb!

Thanks for sharing them.

 

[Lako42]

Superb those DF, truely amazing.


Really makes me wish I had an SLR when I went to New Zealand.

 

[Matt_B]

Superb those DF, truely amazing.


Really makes me wish I had an SLR when I went to New Zealand.

And me, I got some great pics when I went roung Yellowstone and Yosemite but they are all 640x480 pixels! Tiny!

 

[Orifice]

Thanks DF. Cracking stuff, as ever.

 

[DesertFox]

Thanks everyone. I love this camera... :icon_bigg

 

[Siouxsie]

Thanks everyone. I love this camera... :icon_bigg

Superb as ever Dessie

They rather show up my bear and whale photos in post 842/843 :icon_redf

 

[DesertFox]

Superb as ever Dessie

They rather show up my bear and whale photos in post 842/843 :icon_redf

I'd love to go to Alaska. Next couple of years, I hope (although I've become such a warm weather wussie that the cold might just kill me immediately. I've experienced about four mild frosts in the past few years, and that's it!)

 

[DesertFox]

I've just enjoyed browsing through the last few pages of stuff on here, and there are some fabulous photos, especially from young Mr. Beighton (another reminder for me to get a decent macro lens...)

 

[Matt_B]

I've just enjoyed browsing through the last few pages of stuff on here, and there are some fabulous photos, especially from young Mr. Beighton (another reminder for me to get a decent macro lens...)

:icon_redf cheers

 

[Leesoh]

I wish we had the time to go to Yellowstone now. Some amazing pics.

 

[SJN-Fox]

Returning from Lundy in a Force 7 gale

 

[Matt_B]

The moon, behold. I do have a bigger version but I cropped this one for my blog and it has been processed a bit more.

 

[Macky]

Fake! It's Photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels etc etc

 

[Matt_B]

Fake! It's Photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels etc etc

I am determined to pick out the flag on one of them :icon_bigg

 

[LCFCmonkey]

Hopefully i'll be able to get some good photos from my Eurotrip.

 

[DesertFox]

I had the pleasure of covering a classic Arizona birding hotspot in a survey the other day, a place called Whitewater Draw, which has one of the biggest wintering flocks of Sandhill Cranes in the world and all sorts of other cool stuff. I was mainly finding, counting and logging birds, but I grabbed a few pics while I was at it.


Lots of cranes.


Snow Geese.



A Loggerhead Shrike. I later saw it with a sparrow it had caught and ripped open. It's only slightly larger than a sparrow itself and struggled to carry it when it flew from one tree to another.

 

[DesertFox]

We saw a few more gory moments during the day - a Sharp-shinned Hawk with a freshly killed bird, an American Kestrel with a rodent and this, the most surprising and impressive. Great Horned Owls are big, but I didn't realise that they can take other owls as prey. Apparently they do it quite regularly. I found this one (sorry about the crap photo, best I could do) roosting on last night's supper... a Barn Owl!