Category Archives: Fauna

Resting

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF500mm f/4L IS USM, 1/500 @ f/8 Monarchs spend some time resting and gathering energy for the rest of their migration along the California coast. This example seems to have suffered some damage along the way.

Monarch

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF500mm f/4L IS USM, 1/400 @ f/8 It takes a cold morning before these guys rest long enough to be photographed.

Natural Bridges SP: Monarchs

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF500mm f/4L IS USM, 1/200 @ f/8 The Monarchs are beginning to gather on the coast. The best view we has this weekend was at Natural Bridges SP in Santa Cruz. In the early moring hours, they cling to … Read More

Pacific Grove: Continuing with a cat theme …

Pacific Grove: Cat in a window

Botanical Garden Honeybee

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3 Tilden Park Botanical Garden.

Industrious workers

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/200 @ f/6.3 I spent a few hours at the Botanic Garden in Tilden Park today and the bees were working very hard. I wish they would slow down.

I don’t know what it is

Canon EOS 5D Mark II + EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM, 1/160 @ f/11 ..but I like it. Another fine photo taken at the Arboritum at Flagstaff.

Eurasian Eagle Owl – Bubo bubo

On a recent trip through the southwest, we were fortunate enough to have been told about the Arboritum at Flagstaff. In addition to a grand display of flora they also have a raptors program. The Eurasian Eagle Owl looks much like a great horned owl … Read More

Flagstaff Arboritum

We visited the Flagstaff Arboritum and had a great time. The butterflies were abundant and quite absorbed in their work, giving me a chance to get close.

Swallowtail

Swallowtail uploaded by admin. This butterfly was so intent on mining some road apples that it let me get very close. Dupont State forest in North Carolina.

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Tiny Butterfly

_MG_6008 uploaded by admin. This little guy was perhaps 1/2″ across. He/She stopped for just a moment and this was the better of two images Canon EOS 5D Mark II+EF100mm f/2.8 Macro – f/8@1/100