Ill stick all my animal shots in this thread

was this in your yard lab?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388563,00.html

That's an awesome shot. Deer are just beautiful-looking animals.

You know what, I thought I saw him at the pool bash I was at on Sat nite. We downed 5 bottles of Apfel Korn and there was only 6 of us drinking it. Oh, and that was after us drinking a few cases of beer I think the wife was a little imbaressed Na not really, the women did a number on the Margareda mix. The went thre 4 gallons
Here is a pick of the storm that just cliped us in Forked River on Sun.

Here is the visitor I had today,

holly crap lab, Thats a monster. I may have to take my bow out in your backyard.

I may shoot him just to check him for roids Then have you up for a BBQ

Not sure if its the same guy. I couldnt get close for a good pic.





Edit- I think it is the same one. looking at the white dot on the nose and checking out the shape of the points

Nice pics lab.

yea thats my buck. I will ring your doorbell so you can help me drag him out of the woods

Thanks!




I have 3 people telling me they will pay me to sit in the back.LOL Not sure if he will be back for a while. I walked back into the woods to try to get another pic. I went to go around a big bush and he was on the other side eating it. Took off like a bat out of hell.

Not a good shot, but I couldnt get him to turn around. And since I went in after him, I didnt press the issue I know he is small, but I am old

I'll bore you with a few more shots I just took in the yard

Great shots as always, Lab.

You've got more courage than me going in after that bear, lol. I don't care how small it is, I never would have done that!

I'm married 15+yrs, a bear is nothing J/K

The smaller ones are the fawns that I took shots of in the summer (see top posts) There are 2 moms and 4 fawns, One was one the side of the house.

Red fox in the yard this afternoon. Blurry because its ar 30X it was back in the woods.

OK, we were sitting in the family room and something kept setting off the motion light in the back. walked in to the kids play room and he was just standing in the window looking in.LOL



Here he is a few days later stiking his tongue out at me.

great shot small rack for a very well fed looking buck, throwing apples in fall?
corn theyre all over your yard man.

There is around 90 acres of wetland behind me. It has ponds fields and everything. They follow that down the road a bit and have 1000+ acres of state land.

Do you hunt at all? must a be a field day if you do .

Not too much.


BTW- Saw this guy looking for some food today in the yard

Here are a few more.. the deer is from Mid March Birds, today

More great shots lab, amazing how close you can get w/o the deer getting spooked.

i know hes gotta be about 3 inches away..or maybe he has one of those fancy camera things with one of them there zoom type of lenses

Thanks, I was about 25' from the deer. She was standing at the end of my lower deck eating a bush.lol

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You try taking pictures of deer 25' away and you tell me what happens. Actually take a picture, show me and then be sarcastic.

Not good photos, but fun to take.....


Had two bears in the yard on Sun. and this photo I took Mon of another one walking thru






Here is a pic of a fox this morning..

again, not good shoots but fun.. so we get home from baseball last night and the kids yell come out on the deck..........

this is what was there




Then my little one gets pissed yells at the cubs to stop playing with his tonka trucks






and some more of them ( 4 of them 3 cubs and a mom) hanging out










Oh and in the morning there was a nice hawk hanging in the yard too

nice shots, poor cubs are probably about to get kicked out on their own this year

Hope they dont move into my yard.LOL

Snowshoe, how big do you think that mother is 275-300?

I would say average size 250ibs. The cubs will probably leave mom by early to mid summer. They stay with her for 1.5 years and those in your yard are yearlings. Great shots. I also have a hard time getting wildlife shots. Im better with landscape/scenary pictures.
I bet that fox has a den close by. You should go look for it. Usually the parents take turns guarding the den as the kits play outside.

I had bear take my garbage a few weeks ogo and my dog chased a cub up the tree last week in the yard. Today hiking I spooked 2 cubs and mom. They were about 20 yards from me.

This guy was in the yard Yesterday in the pouring rain. not a good pic. I was calling him Yogi, trying to get him to lift his head but it didnt work. And go ahead and call me a wimp, but I didnt want to get any closer. LOL

whimp!

you should have said "your momma is a rug in my basement!"

LOL How about I make the wife a coat out of one, and have her walk out and yell, who's your Mama now!!!!! LOL

hahah video tape that!!

She was sitting nice and comfortable outside my study window.



Then I barely tapped the window after I shot the other pix thru and she heard it and sprung up at once in defense.

Nice shot Ice. She looks to be full of milk by looking at her pouch. I be the fawns were near by.

Yep. She has two little ones that I saw that are dog size. I took those shots with an 80-200 lens from about 35 feet away.

From yesterday...

you first mister mouth

Had friend come over and visit...............................










For reference the bush is 5' tall at the tallest. Were his head was was 4' It looks smaller since I am shooting down at it off my deck.

damn!1 hope you have a shot gun or something to protect your little ones! thats a big'n!

Not to worry I think he is only around 250lbs. Snowshoe would know

not bad you can take him.

awesome pics btw!

Nice shots lab. I would say he his average size for this time of year. Looks to be in the 250-300lbs range. Looks like a male.

No one NJ has ever been killed by a bear and the people who have been attached (if you want to even call it that) provoked the bear in some way. I have encountered bears hundreds of times and some times within feet of them. Not once did the bear show any sign of aggresion. The most they do is bluff charges. That can be scary but at the last minute they turn around. They are like any wild animal. I would be more worried about people then bears.

not advocating lab go rambo or anything llke that, just can't reason with the bear if the human does do something to provoke. i crossed a deer(buck) the wrong way once and for a spit second i thought he was going to charge, but a slide away slowly.

Oh cr@p,already made a rug aou of him LOL kidding.

I am more worried about the coyote thats running around then the bears. Of cource I tell the kids to stay away from all of the animals.

Thanks, Maybe I can get a shot of one of the bigger ones. Theres one that makes this guy look like a midget.