Official Nature/Empty Wave/Bird/Whatever Else Photo Thread

A strange flock of mixed domestic and wild turkeys on the road to my place in upstate PA. How the domestic guys made it all the way up into the wilderness up there without being eaten by coyotes or bobcats is beyond me.

 

27 inch, 10 pound rainbow caught on a red/white jig.
Almost 20 inch Palomino caught on power bait in same spot as the monster rainbow.
Both were filleted and marinated in a lemon/garlic sauce and cooked on the grill with venison sausage, peppers and, onions.

 

Saw this guy a couple days ago after a fun afternoon / evening session. He had some damage to his shell, wonder what happened?

 

One more...

 

here's a few i got this past weeked in the hudson valley:





then this guy decided to show up:



(sorry for the crappy quality, got caught off-guard with a wrong lens)

 

and of course, not to break the flow of this thread - here's a turtle's ass:

 

Yea! It was a special day all around. One of the rare variety Th blue bird came with a bright yellow friend, I'll post a pic for professional identification in a little while.

 

Middle, is an eastern blue bird, pretty rare. Nice pic! Birders would be jealous.

 

Feb2016. canyon pass along the Snake River. Alpine, Wyoming
Mountain goat

 

nice!!! what luck!

here's his yellow friend btw, you guys know who that is?

my closest guess is its a female american goldfinch



that goat sure is wooly!

 

This one wants red wool.

 

Lesbians?


700 yr old trees


spot X

 

REDDIT'S TOP FIVE ANSWERS TO 'WHAT IS THE STUPIDEST THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN A TOURIST DO INSIDE A NATIONAL PARK?'

Answering the question 'what is the stupidest thing you have ever seen a tourist do inside a national park?' on Reddit, the following five answers were highlighted as the best:

1. Cortechthrowaway: 'When I worked in Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness, we'd regularly encounter people who had watched too much Discovery Channel and decided to abandon civilization and "live off the land". These survivalist types never came prepared with a rod or a gun or even a tent. No. They were going to build a thatch shelter and whittle a spear and go stab an elk, or something. Of course, if anyone had ever succeeded in this, they'd get bored and cold and hungry and walk back out the way they'd come in.'

2. King_bestestes: 'So this is my favourite tourist story. I was in a national park at the visitor's center. Suddenly, there's this huge commotion and a lot of screaming from the lobby. I head over to find an entire tourist family crying and screaming and the park staff trying their best to manage the situation. Then the air shifts and it hits me. They had applied a liberal amount of bear spray all over themselves and the entire lobby. Apparently, they had mistaken the wording of 'bear repellent' and had assumed it was to be used like mosquito repellent.

3. ColorMeStunned: 'I once had a lady get really mad at me because "the trees here look just like the ones in my backyard!"... That's not my fault.'

4. Dumbtourists: 'People would go hiking up Half Dome despite thunderstorm/lightning warnings, people would be playing around in the water or near it right before a waterfall drop off, people would be swimming in lakes with thunderstorms and lightning on the horizon, people would leave food in their car despite bear warnings everywhere. Basically National Parks are full of idiots and when people go missing, get hurt or die I'm no longer surprised.'

5. Gcviking: 'I was a fire fighter on a national forest. I saw people trying to take selfies with a bear.'

 

whats the matter with #5? why do you assume bears are anti-social and not on fb? you dont know man... you dont know.

 

Go for it, Ranger Rick. Let us know how that turns out for you.

 

Pretty sure I saw a Pinniped two days ago when I was surfing. He wasn't very big, only saw him for 2 seconds and then he disappeared. Didn't know they ventured this far South. Pretty cool though. Wish I had a camera.

 

The Caribbean has it's own species. But there are not a lot of them left.