The Nature Photography Thread

[Eight]

Here are my most recent pics from my trip to the zoo (not so natural I know).









This last little guy was on the fencing to the Tiger Enclosure, standing his ground and getting pretty verbal at the Tiger when it showed. I thought he deserved to be shown for that.

[guidofatherof5]

Love those male english sparrows. Sparrows are a smart bird, they make great pets.

[Eight]

He was full of character. I am a fan of smaller birds. Don't think I'll ever keep them though.

[guidofatherof5]

I've raised a number of sparrows in my life. Awesome birds. I'd let them go in the morning. During the day I'd go out on the deck and call them by name. They would fly right back and sit on my hand. Eventually they stopped coming back. I guess they found a group to be with and headed off with them.

[Eight]

That's pretty awesome. It's nice to know they've gone to be a part of something natural, but I would imagine you also felt a pang of sadness when they leave

[RedSidedSPR]

Those photos are sweeeeet. Went to a dinky little zoo near our house the other day, got some ok shots I'll upload. But now I gotta go to legit zoo lol

[ConcinusMan]

That's pretty awesome. It's nice to know they've gone to be a part of something natural, but I would imagine you also felt a pang of sadness when they leave

Nothing natural about it. They don't belong in North America.

"Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow." -W.L. Dawson, The Birds of Ohio, 1903

[Stefan-A]

Nothing natural about it. They don't belong in North America.

"Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow." -W.L. Dawson, The Birds of Ohio, 1903

That quote preceded the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, a bird that once formed colonies of hundreds of millions (if not billions), and the population explosion of the European Starling, and the DDT disaster of the mid-20th century.

[Eight]

Nothing natural about it. They don't belong in North America.

"Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow." -W.L. Dawson, The Birds of Ohio, 1903

By something natural I did not mean their native environment. I meant that they then went on to continue their live as they would in nature, foraging for food and living the more normal sparrow life

[norcalj]

Here are some recent pics from the field. The one stripe atratus pic was taken last year.SAM_0241.jpg002.jpgSAM_0195.jpgSAM_0192.jpgSAM_0211.jpg