Beautiful Animals

Hey, av, the little giraffe appears to be wearing some kinda neck bandage. Hope the little guy is OK. I'm trying very hard to believe that the second picture is real. Is or isn't, it's a doozy. Thanks, kid.

golden mantled ground squirrel

bump

double steenkin' bump

Tres cute in the rodent department, RH. Thanks mucho.

A flying squirrel. Great pic, kid.

Peacock Swallowtail

A "posh" pic of a Clydesdale....


An everyday pic of a Clydesdale....


G'night....

Rosborne, That butterfly takes my breath away. Stunning. Thanks.

Hiya London, As fancy shmancy as the posh Clydesdale is, and as beautiful as it is, I like Daren and his Clydesdale. That is Daren, isn't it? I'm also liking the two-tone PC. Thanks mucho.

Red spotted genet:

Via The Guardian:

A murmuration of starlings over the town of Gretna. The birds visit the area twice a year, in February and November.
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

That's an awesome flock of birds Lady Osso. Love your turkey avatar as well.

And Barry? What kind of bird is that in the bird feeder?

squirrel monkey

Too slow to chase. Too heavy to play soccer with. Head disappears when you swipe at it. What good is it?! A cat ponders his new companion in a Paris apartment.
Photo: Francois Guillot, AFP/Getty Images / SFGate




A homeless couple beg for money while feeding their Vietnamese pig Sarah in Madrid.
Photo: Daniel Ochoa De Olza, Associated Press / SFGate




A friend of the feathered feeds a sparrow in the El Prado museum's garden in Madrid.
Photo: Dominique Faget, AFP/Getty Images / SFGate

Neat video, thanks, Tsar.

New York - that was Daren.He lives in Scotland.
Osso - There is a tree a hundred feet from me where starlings gather before heading off to their nests.And they are loud! If a tree full of starlings is loud,what does a sky-full sound like?
tsar - I reckon that cat is waiting for a home delivery from Feathers R' Us.

Stayin' cute,for the moment. ...

I gather starlings aren't regarded very well, but I'm not all that informed on the starling or sparrow or geese pros and cons. Still, that's a powerful photo.

In my book starlings are great.They make a noise and then move on.Sparras ain't as common as they used to be but there's a bunch of them in a privit hedge just down the road.Canada geese,along with swans and ducks,I can see on Blackheath pond,just beside the Princess Of Wales pub,most days of the week....

Mr Rogers and Koko. Mr Rogers is the one on the right.

Back in Venice, CA, a woman at the end of our block had a giant Ficus tree in her small parking strip. Someone must have planted the tree from a small pot. Ficus trees are famous as living room plants, but also for shallow and strong roots. From my view, all time mistake re the city planting street trees, but this one was, I take it, a volunteer. Even the city wasn't that dumb.

Anyway, along came a whole bunch of night herons, since some trees were cut down in the marina to make room for a hotel. And then her whole property got a great deal of bird ****.
Night herons naturally are clamorous at night.

I'm sorry now I never knocked on the door and talked with her.