This is my day 21 contribution to Becky’s July Squares on the theme of Perspective and another of my eye level perspective photos.
This Eastern Chipmunk portrait was taken by lying in the grass to get down to eye level with the subject.
Tag: Eastern Chipmunk
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Friendly Friday: Something Good
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Something Good.
I drew a blank on this prompt at first before thinking about the way the natural world is carrying on as normal regardless of the humans around them. Spring migration continues as normal so I thought of some of the recently arrived or recently emerged from hibernation species in this part of Ontario.
I had my first American Robin about a month ago.
We had a male Northern Cardinal show up in the yard about three weeks ago.
I had my first Eastern Chipmunk emerge from hibernation about 10 days ago.
I heard Sandhill Cranes calling a week or two ago and saw two last Thursday.
I had my first Raccoon of the spring yesterday (Friday) evening.
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Weekly Prompts: Boundaries
The Weekly Prompts: Boundaries challenge got me thinking about the variable boundaries wild birds and animals put between themselves and humans.
The reason I say variable is because most species will keep their distance from humans. The more erratic and noisy the behaviour of the human the wider the boundary between them.
On the other hand, some understanding of animal behaviour and some fieldcraft will allow you to get within a few feet of many species. I have had wild birds and mammals approach me so closely that I couldn’t focus the lens I was using on them.
Portrait of a female Wilson’s Phalarope taken at Middle Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. A flock of six Wilson’s Phalaropes landed close to me when I was photographing some American White Pelicans. I laid down in the sand and wildfowl poop at the edge of the lake and proceeded to spend some time with them. When I was lying down the birds started ignoring me. This female was so close I couldn’t get all her body in the frame. Some of the birds wandered so close I couldn’t focus on them.
This European Rabbit was photographed in Shropshire, England. I was surprised how relaxed some Rabbits were at this location. I know there was a Red Fox hunting them. I did wonder if they were so relaxed because they knew that the Fox wouldn’t be around if there was a human in the area.
A juvenile Red Knot resting on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton during its autumn migration. I had gone down to the shoreline for the sunrise and discovered two Red Knot. I spent long enough with them that they started ignoring me allowing me to photograph them feeding, bathing, preening and resting.
This Eastern Chipmunk was photographed in our yard in Ontario, Canada. The various birds and mammals got so used to me lying in the grass that summer that they started ignoring me. I had Chipmunks running across my legs while squirrels and birds landed in the Cedar branches a few feet away checking out the human in the grass.
When this week’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge was posted I was working on my Christmas card for 2019. Rather appropriate for the Christmas Preparations challenge.
I always make a double sided card with a vertical image on one side and a horizontal image on the other. That gives people the option of choosing which photo to display and allowing them to stand or hang the card in either orientation.
The vertical shot on this year’s card, an Eastern Chipmunk posing in the grass.
The horizontal shot on this year’s card, a hodgepodge of tree trunks in the autumn.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Candid
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Candid.
I considered the more obvious candid shots of humans before deciding to go in a completely different direction.
An American Red Squirrel on the South Bruce Peninsula. One of the squirrels in the area that are so used to me being around that they ignore me allowing me to take candid portraits as they go about their business.
An Eastern Chipmunk ignoring the photographer.
A Racoon that wandered into the yard. It’s more interested in the bird feeders than the photographer.
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CFFC: Gardens
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Gardens.
A selection of nature subjects taken in a variety of gardens over the years.
A Redwing eating a Holly berry photographed in a Cheshire, England garden in the mid 1980s.
Orange Daylily photographed in an Ontario, Canada garden a couple of years ago.
An Eastern Chipmunk photographed in a garden in Ontario, Canada a decade or so ago.
Borage flower buds photographed in Cheshire, England garden in the mid 1990s.
A leucistic juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker photographed in a Cheshire, England garden in the late 1980s.
A Coneflower photographed in an Ontario, Canada garden a year or two ago.
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Urban
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Urban.
My initial thought was that I don’t do urban before thinking of urban Red Foxes. At that point I started thinking about some of the flora and fauna I have photographed in urban areas.
An American Robin on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario. Canada.
An Eastern Chipmunk in an urban garden, Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
Hoarfrost on Cotoneaster berries photographed in an urban Cheshire garden.
A male Eurasian Siskin eating peanuts in an urban garden, Cheshire, England.
A Red Fox trotting along the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario.
A Borage flower photographed in an urban Cheshire garden.
