Black-bellied Barbados ram.
Taken on private property in Texas.


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Actually, out of the grass, but that's not as dramatic sounding... :)

She was sleeping underneath the water willows and I (barely) spotted her with my binoculars, and I was hoping that I'd find one. Since she was mostly in the shade I had to adjust my camera's exposure to 'see' in the darker areas, then, she came out and surprised me, so my shade settings luckily worked in the brighter daylight. Usually that is not the case, but I was praying... :)

I say, "she" because this Bobcat has at least one kitten in there too, I saw the kitten from a distance sitting upright out in the open, it was too far away to get good shots of it, it was at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) away when I spotted it.
Usually, when I see a grown Bobcat they look all weary and disheveled, but this one seemed to be all healthy looking and doing just fine, even though it was sweltering at the time.

They have a very hard life, so it made me feel good that this one at least looks like it's living the good life. :)

Thanks to my wife, this was shot on my 41st wedding anniversary! :)
I said to her the night before, "What do you want to do on our anniversary?",
she said,
"Whatever you want to do..."
So there I was, camera in hand out taking pictures!
Woo-hoo!


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Village Creek Drying Beds (Ft. Worth, Texas)

Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

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Bison taken in the Wichita Mountains in Southwest Oklahoma.

(Bison bison)

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One of the thieving criminals that I feed daily, the state doesn't help with any welfare, I do it all on my own. :)
They rob me blind since I started feeding birds, but you have to admit, they are CUTE!
(I used to only have Fox Squirrels until I moved and now only these, so at least that's a change!)

Scientific name: Sciurus carolinensis

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Porky is a little pig that followed me around one day.

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Porky saw me as I was driving in to park at a local park I lived by. That park was on a large river, the Trinity River that goes through the Dallas/Ft. Worth areas. There are woods that follow it like there is to most rivers, so I like to go out in the woods and see what I can find, bird-wise or animal-wise, it doesn't matter to me.
He/she followed me all of the way in, which was about 350 yards or so, and it followed me just like a loyal dog would. Of course, I didn't really didn't know what to think about it, I have not run across this type of situation before.
The situation was this, it apparently was all alone and I can only assume that the City of some organization came in the night before and 'dealt' with a lot of hogs, Porky's family too. I don't know for sure, but that would explain it all, at least to me. I steered clear of Porky for a few minutes after I got out of my truck, I mean, it was a wild hog, it looked almost like a Javelina, (Peccary) but I knew it wasn't. This was a poor lost little hog, that had nobody to call its own, I actually really felt bad for it.

I know, it's a hog, a destructive animal the wreaks havoc on lawns, golf courses, anything that might have food for it, they can tear up a place in a hurry, that kind of hog... They are really rampant in this particular area.
There is that possibility that Porky was a neighbor's pet, or a farm hog that escaped, but, it doesn't take long for them to revert back to their natural ways in the wild. I have seen giant hogs that I was genuinely afraid of in the wild, 300 pounds or more, this was not an animal to be afraid of.

This wasn't a normal hog though, this was a little kid, lost, scared probably, and it was lonely, the reason I know this is that Porky followed me around for approximately 4 hours, never straying far except when I might start walking and it was asleep, or eating. I usually stand still for awhile when I am shooting, to not spook any wildlife, so I would talk to Porky and when I did, it laid down beside be and went to sleep, or, laid there and just sniffed grass, or lazed around. I mean, this was a very friendly hog, so friendly that it let me pet it, I had on some thin gloves that I shoot with when it's too cool out, so I used that, even I know that a hog is not that clean, plus its boar bristles were thick and very wire-like. It loved being petted after a minute or two, it would stand there and its eyes would start to close, or it would lie down.

This went on for like I said, hours, I talked to Porky a lot, I became attached to it in a certain way, he was always within 3 feet away from me when it was laying down, so he/she was always near, Porky almost heeled, he was that obedient. I felt really bad for this thing, but as far as I know, the only help Porky would get is to be dealt with like his family probably was, there would be nobody that I knew of that would/could take in a wild hog. I knew what would become of Porky, but I tried not to think about it, I actually still, to this day think about that little innocent and lost critter, who probably ran up to the next person that came in, looking for someone to talk to it.

Keep in mind too that I was using a 400mm lens that had a 2.x converter on it making it an 800mm lens, so I had to kind of run away for a few steps just to get Porky into the frame. heheh

Thanks to all that Fave my shots too, it's always really very much appreciated!

Scientific name: Sus scrofa?

On another outing I befriended a beautiful blonde ex-model that was down on her luck, she was about 30 years old and she had nowhere to stay, REAL friendly too,THIS TIME I said, "I have a place where you can stay!". Turns out, my wife wouldn't let me keep her.

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