Wildlife Pics

Ura-Ki · May 4, 2019

My little buddy! Western Pygmy Owl about a year old, lives up in the rafters in the car port! Comes down to "Beg" visit every day to see what's going on! Usually follows me around when i'm out side, makes a mess of my hair and has destroyed my good Cat hat! Still, fun little feller!

nextgenar · May 4, 2019

Looks a lot like this guy that flew in the widow of my truck, while I was driving, a few years ago, l turned around and released him as close to the point that he flew in. ASR's

Ura-Ki said:
My little buddy! Western Pygmy Owl about a year old, lives up in the rafters in the car port! Comes down to "Beg" visit every day to see what's going on! Usually follows me around when i'm out side, makes a mess of my hair and has destroyed my good Cat hat! Still, fun little feller!

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DeanMk · May 4, 2019

Not sure if I ever posted this, and I'm too lazy to look back through 17 pages to see...anyway, maybe you haven't seen it because its too far back in the thread.
...From the 44th floor of a building, somewhere in downtown Seattle....

...this guy was asleep, with his head stuck down at the base of his wings. Just as I was about to take the picture, his head popped up. Dammit.
This is taken through a large pane of glass, that's why everything has a greenish hue (sees a lot of sun, so they applied something to cut down on that).
The little white spot on the back of his head is actually a reflection from the glass I was shooting through, but I always thought it made his head look like a wet egg.

Dean

DeanMk · May 4, 2019

...a baby Chimney Swift pokes his head out of the birdhouse that sits over my garage, for the first time....

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DeanMk · May 4, 2019

Did I ever show you guys my little bunny rabbit movie?

ilikegunspdx · May 5, 2019

Saw the first Western Tanager in backyard this morning but couldn't get an up close shot. These guys come up from central America and usually we don't see them in Portland until mid to late May. Seems like they are a little bit early this year. They seem to really like pine trees. Body is all yellow so pretty easy to spot. They are smaller than a robin but bigger than a sparrow. I've heard that their diet determines how red their head is.

coyote223 · May 19, 2019

bobdog308 · May 19, 2019

This bastard likes to kill my goats.... .270 win is comin in hot now for ya song dog.

Member 5605 · May 19, 2019

I forgot the camera today.

Quite a few Bald Eagles were about 15y from the road eating some mutton in a field. Would have been great...

Gunnerboy · May 20, 2019

Arms distance ...he didn't give a F

308 · May 20, 2019

Ura-Ki said:
My little buddy! Western Pygmy Owl about a year old, lives up in the rafters in the car port! Comes down to "Beg" visit every day to see what's going on! Usually follows me around when i'm out side, makes a mess of my hair and has destroyed my good Cat hat! Still, fun little feller!

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That is so cool. I think the fact he trusts you says more about you than him
. :s0090:

Ura-Ki · May 20, 2019

308 said:
That is so cool. I think the fact he trusts you says more about you than him
.

There is something about Animals and me, I don't know what it is or why, but it's always been that way! :s0092:

2DaMtns · May 21, 2019

Forgive the crappy cell phone pics.

This guy spent a few mornings in my backyard. Had a female with him one morning.

Saw this dude chowing down right beside the road. Got to within 15 yards or so of him.

Finally, there's a really nice 4x4 blacktail standing in here.

grapo13 · May 22, 2019

2DaMtns said:
Forgive the crappy cell phone pics.

This guy spent a few mornings in my backyard. Had a female with him one morning.
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Saw this dude chowing down right beside the road. Got to within 15 yards or so of him.
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Finally, there's a really nice 4x4 blacktail standing in here.
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There's no deer in that third picture, you are yanking our chain..

2DaMtns · May 22, 2019

grapo13 said:
There's no deer in that third picture, you are yanking our chain..

I wouldn't do such a thing! Now you'll have to forgive a cellphone screenshot of a poorly edited poorly taken cell phone pic. His head is right there in the circle. You can even make out his antlers if you zoom in, hold the tip of your tongue out the left side of your mouth, the wind is just right, and the moon is in the right phase.

2DaMtns · May 22, 2019

Zoom in on the first pic I posted. It's better quality and you might believe it's him there.

EPS · May 22, 2019

This might not be the place but .
Does anyone know about antelope in Washington.
I was driving from between Spokane and Ritzville the other day and I Swear I saw a Antelope in the field just off I 90

DeanMk · May 22, 2019

Yep, they're out there....but there's more in Wyoming.

ilikegunspdx · May 22, 2019

EPS said:
This might not be the place but .
Does anyone know about antelope in Washington.
I was driving from between Spokane and Ritzville the other day and I Swear I saw a Antelope in the field just off I 90

Very cool! Didn't know they were up that far. That got me to do a brief internet search and it looks like the Yakamas reintroduced them to Wa.

From this page, Summary Report 2019 Pronghorn antelope abundance survey in south-central Washington | Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

"By the start of the 20th century, pronghorn antelope were extirpated from Washington. The Yakama tribe reintroduced pronghorn onto the Yakama Reservation in Washington, releasing 198 animals from 2011 to 2019. These pronghorn dispersed from their release locations and increased in abundance (Oyster et al. 2015, 2017). We conducted a third biennial aerial survey on February 6-7, 2019 in parts of Benton, Klickitat, and Yakima counties in south-central Washington, including the Yakama Reservation and private lands. The objective of the survey was to obtain a minimum population estimate for pronghorns. We counted a total of 225 pronghorns from the air and an additional 23 from ground counts, for a total minimum population estimate of 248 pronghorns. The true abundance is likely to be greater as shallow snow conditions made detecting pronghorns and ground travel difficult. However, this remains a relatively small population and there is currently no legal harvest of the species in areas under the auspices of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife or Yakama Nation. The Yakama Nation and WDFW are developing plans regarding future management for this herd."