Beautiful Animals

Caption contest photo!

My entry:

WTF!

I think he looks sly..

Caption contest photo!

My entry:

This Yoga is for the birds

My caption:
Ahh! You make sense to me now!

Even at this angle you look like an idiot to me.

These Madison Square Park birds aren't very exotic but it's interesting seeing them take collective dust baths, (something not easily captured via the cheap camera).

They are sparrows aren't they? Sometimes in Oz we have british bird names for birds that aren't actually the same - Magpies for example.

I believe they might be sparrows.

They appear to be sparrows. Love dem. Thanks for sharing, Penny.

Mariana fruit dove:

Bird with The Golden Eye

"An Olive-backed Sunbird feeds its demanding offspring in Banting, Malaysia".
Photo: Vincent Thian / AP/ sfgate




"A mother swan eyes its baby on Outer Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany."
Photo: Malte Christians / AFP / Getty Images/sfg




"An orphaned seal pup embraces its buddy at the Friedrichskoog (Germany) seal rehab station near the North Sea coast."
Photo: Heribert Proepper / AP/sfg

love the swan and seal pics

the daily B & O

Ha! Vampire otter!

Just saw this one - what a beautiful dove.

A young red-tailed hawk shows off its skills as it plays with a tennis ball. Photographer Steve Shinn watched as the bird spent over an hour messing around with a discarded tennis ball in Huntington Beach, California. He almost didn't get the shots - as he was laughing too hard. He explains: "This stage of the young bird's life shows the rather gawky, awkward stage that they go through for the first few weeks after leaving the nest. At play they behave a lot like kittens and puppies. They will pick up some random piece of just about anything and do all sorts of very amusing stunts with them. One found a pine cone while another spent over an hour messing around with a discarded tennis ball which it hauled onto a picnic table. It appears to try crushing, eating, balancing and analysing the thing. Since these images are all taken with rather heavy, hand held equipment, I had to control my laughter to keep from blurring the images."
Picture: Steve Shinn / Rex Features

LOL! The same thought I had!

osso, Great seals and swans.

dj, Wonderful bunnies. Yes, that otter has impressive canines. It's a predator. It's gotta have some kind of weapon.

Wish there was a video of the hawk trying to figure out the tennis ball. Speaking of videos and tennis balls, I posted this a few weeks ago. I think it's appropriate for a rerun now.

www.wimp.com/scarything/