Post your Pet or animal Pics (Part 1)

Sleepy bumblebee chose to sleep on the Sunflower.

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Parabéns! What a cool picture!

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My parent’s porch, actually. Here he/she is sitting on my father’s knee


That might qualify as too tame.

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Looney tunes on the front lawn!

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Beware of falling anvils!

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Not sure if overly optimistic or overly ambitious
:face_with_monocle:

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Sigh. Lets try this again wihout my name showing on his tag!
This is our cat visiting his gecko friend. He will spend up to an hour staring, batting at the glass, and chasing the gecko. The gecko doesn’t seem to mind.

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That’s the ambient video I didn’t know I needed.

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Aww, thanks. That kinda has been my intent with some of this stuff. I lack the personal bandwidth to be a one-man documentarian, and my partner is not really of that type, but we still shouldn’t hog all the cute for ourselves, right?

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I think it’s a male European hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus).

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Wow! Macro lens? Or just long zoom?

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Just a ridiculously expensive smartphone OnePlus 8 Pro.

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And a contest that will award the best pictures of gardens, with a category for photographs of occasional wildlife visitors:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Promotions/rhs-photo-competition/terms-and-conditions

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Ants can be very scary for a little hummingbird.
ohshit

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That’s fascinating. I see wasps taking their spots at the feeders all the time, but ants I would not have expected to bug them.

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Summer 2020 in our central Texas neighborhood.
No filters used in this pics.

Most life forms here are active early in the morning



Texas Leopard Frog attempts to hide from sun, photographer, and children


Dappled morning sun = good, temperature is already 95°F at 9am = bad
 bumblebee on Monarda spp aka “beebalm”


Honeybee Apis mellifera working on so-called thornless Acacia blooms, which smell sweet and musky

or after the sun goes down:


White-tailed deer (fawns) Odocoileus virginianus who I call “Thing 1” and “Thing 2” who–while adorable in this moment–will grow up to eat every plant in sight including cacti, juniper, and other “deer-resistant” plants, which just demonstrates how koyaaniqatsi the land development out here has truly gotten


Green anole Anolis carolinensis climbing a fantastically hot metal cap on a stone pillar: this anole has the ability to change pigmentation from green to brownish; also, a small bagworm caterpillar chrysalis sticks to a metal rib in lower third of this pic


Green anole Anolis carolinensis that is really green this time: they are absurdly green; probably not the same exact lizard as pic above

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“Something keeps attacking my tail!”

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A deer made an appearance on our kayak trip down the Fox River, Aurora IL

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I understand what it feels. I also have a mild entomophobia

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Surfer vs giant squid and the worst girlfriend ever!

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