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| They're
not all "cute and cuddly," but these are all
photos of real animals doing real things.
New photos here February 2, here February 22, here March 1, here March 21 and here April 4, 2018 (captions in red) |
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| A tasty tidbit? | Buzzard over Sierra foothills | Hummingbird at feeder | Egret in deodar cedar tree, central Fresno CA | |
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| Deer harvesting the garden | Chipmunk in Red Fir Condos | Ground squirrel in Yosemite | Rabbit in the yard | |
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| How Furry Lewis observed his 10th birthday party | Furry hanging around the burn barrel | Susie, fierce watch cat | Noodles, August 2002, part of the Tiger Trio | |
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| Noodles, September 2002 | Noodles, January 2003 | Stickers | Buster (front), Stickers (rear) (by Jennifer Neely) | |
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| Stickers, Winter of 2005-06 (Neely) | Stickers in White Face (Neely) | Sausage, breaking the "color barrier" | Lucky | |
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| Condor | Wild Turkeys in Mariposa | Sierra foothills salamander | ||
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| Lizard banished from the house | Lizard on the Colorado Plateau | Sierra foothill Lizard | Ohio pond frog | |
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| Rattlesnake, Sierra foothills | Gopher snake, foothills | Baby rattler (1 foot long) | Spider web in rocks by a creek | |
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| Galapagos Tortoises, Fresno Zoo | Sea turtle, Atlanta Aquarium (by Tim Liddle) | Tiny turtle (the squares on the tablecloth are about 1 inch) | Turtle in pond, Lake St. Louis MO | |
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| Butterfly 5 | Butterfly 9 | Butterfly 18 | Black Widow | |
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| Caterpillar, Ohio | Blond Wooly Bear, Kansas | Dragonfly on the wire | Tarantula near Pine Flat dam, Sierra foothills | |
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| Sinister spider (Jennifer Neely photo) | Quite an armful! | Giblets - the Cat in the Cap (Neely) | Giblets attacks Mr. Socks | |
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| 2008 Tarantula crop | Making his escape | Pelicans flying above Laguna Beach CA | Dolphins feeding off Dana Point CA | |
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| American avocet in pond by Cholame Valley Road | Stellar's Jay at Bothe-Napa Valley State Park | Lizard in park | ||
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| Bar fight at the Neelys | Too much TV | Deer next to a foothill home in Oakhurst CA (J. Neely photo) | Quail near Pt. Reyes visitor center | |
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| The buzzards (AKA turkey vultures) come home to roost at Hensley Reservoir, Madera County CA | Bird in flight near Bodega Bay | Elephant seals taking it easy at Jenner, CA | ||
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| Gull at Mendocino Headlands | Seagull on patrol | Pelican at RV park in Shelter Cove, CA | Wild turkeys near Oakhurst, CA | |
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| Butterfly dining | OK, who left the garage door open? (by Bev Williams) | Blue jay near Oakhurst CA | Siamese siesta | |
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| Alpacas in Gilroy | Beef cow at San Joaquin Gorge | Little Hombre naps by the pump house after a good walk |
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| Noodles stands guard (Rod Neely photo) | Ants in the Sierra foothills | The dark stripe is a path worn by thousands of ant footsteps | Banana slug on the trail, Russian Gulch State Park | |
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| A rare sighting - baby seagulls | Hey ma, time for dinner! | Back yard deer at Ft. Bragg CA | Pelican flyover, Ft. Bragg | |
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| Tarantulas go forth in the fall in search of mates | Camels at Mojave Narrows Park, Victorville CA | A rare sighting of a turtle near Pine Flat Lake, Fresno County |
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Vulture soaring over the Alabama Hills | What are YOU lookin' at? | Sputnik (originally Dusty), the newest Neely cat, summer 2013 (by J. Neely) | |
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| This gopher excavated next to my feet for several minutes at a bluegrass festival near Hollister | Young bear on the High Sierra Trail Sequoia National Park, September 2013 | Buck feeding near Wuksachi Lodge in Sequoia Park | Sharp-shin hawk at Hawk Ridge banding station, Duluth Minnesota, August 2013 | |
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| Red tail hawk near Hensley Lake, Madera County CA | Hawk airborne | Rabbit "hiding" in the brush | Duck looking for a handout | |
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| Horned Lizard, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada |
Alleged feral cat, part of a colony along the Old Town Trail in Clovis CA |
Another suspect | "I am NOT a feral cat - feed me!" | |
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Observer along the Clovis Old Town Trail |
Bird with yellow spot | Bluebird | Black headed bird | |
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| Turkey vulture next to Trimmer Springs Road, Fresno County | Woodpecker near Pine Flat Reservoir | A peanut for Nosy, the Fresno Zoo's beloved first elephant | Rusty thinks there's nothing like a nice, tasty pine cone | |
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| Butterfly on dandelion, Great Basin National Park | Foot tall ant hill in Baker, NV | Squirrel in the meadow near Devil's Postpile | Antelope in Dinosaur National Monument, CO | |
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| Cottontail rabbit in northwest Colorado | Pigmy rabbits in Dinosaur National Monument, Utah |
Otis and Amos, hound dogs of Missouri |
Lizard in Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado | |
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| In Swanton, Ohio, it IS easy being green | Blue Heron patrolling Wampler's Lake in Michigan | At the 2014 Mariposa County Fair | Eurasian Owl | |
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| Falcon | Turkey vulture | A closer view |
Squirrel posing in park in Clovis CA |
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| Raven over Yosemite | At least 50 ground squirrels were at work in this field along Highway 1 in Big Sur |
Elephant seals at San Simeon, doing what they do best |
Lunch time | |
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| Ducks, egrets and geese in canal in Clovis CA, May 2015 | ||||
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Mother & Father Goose and babies |
This toad visited my front porch in summer 2015 | Longhorns, Sierra foothills |
Egret by Dry Creek Canal in Clovis |
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| Bear feeding on young plants in a Sierra meadow | Two more bears at the "lunch counter" | Frog in Dry Creek Canal, Clovis CA | Duck in Helm Canal | |
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| Bobcat along Road 400 in Madera County | A "zoomed in" view | Wondering if there really is anything such as a free lunch? | Toad on Clovis canal bank | |
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| Chipmunk in Yosemite, August 2015 | Cat annoyed at having his breakfast interrupted |
The fine line between dead and lazy |
The hunter | |
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| Lady cools off and gets a drink at the same time | Drought means expensive hay instead of natural grass | Rare Kaibab squirrel, Grand Canyon North Rim |
Deer in the sage brush at Mono Lake | |
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| Horses at Red Cliffs Lodge, Colorado River Canyon near Moab Utah | ||||
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| Rare sighting of a kingfisher by the Dry Creek Canal |
Geese find something to eat in the dry flood basin |
"You can't see me" |
Blue Jay foraging by the Old Town Trail |
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| A good old-fashioned cattle drive, near Raymond CA | Egret in flight | One of at least two hundred millipedes we saw at the San Joaquin Gorge | Horses at Harris Ranch on Trimmer Springs Road | |
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| Frog from the pond at San Joaquin Gorge | Horses by Little Dry Creek along Highway 168 | Cattle by Big Dry Creek just down the road |
Birds enjoy a rain-filled flood basin in Clovis |
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| Western pond turtle at the Center for River Studies | Snake in the grass |
Canada Geese over Hensley Lake |
Frog along San Joaquin River Trail |
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| Eagle's flight | Quail on the march | Ant hill on the San Joaquin River Trail above Finegold | Not the animal, but signs that he was here | |
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| Rabbit on the Parkfield-Coalinga Road | Enjoying a juicy weed | Monarch butterfly on the Lewis Creek Trail | Toad on the Dry Creek Canal bank, spring 2016 | |
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| Gray squirrel, Wawona Meadow Trail in Yosemite | A robin finds something yummy beside the Dry Creek Canal | Toad at Cambridge Terrace Condos, June 2017 | Literally a leaping lizard | |
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| Rabbits and rider along the Eaton Trail | Quail on the fence at Hallowell Center for River Studies | Marmot checking out the tourists at Tokopah Falls | Wild
Turkey (by Susan Crandall) |
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| Buzzards drying their wings (Crandall) | Butterfly in the Giant Sequoia National Monument | Chipmunk near Courtright Reservoir | Ladybugs mass together in preparation for winter | |
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| Woodpecker busy storing acorns for the future | Pinacate beetle, AKA stink bug | Heron at Hume Lake | Pelicans have become regular visitors to this flood basin | |
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| Lots of egrets | A big pile of ladybugs in Nelder Grove | Even more ladybugs | Cows in the trees keep a wary eye on the photographer | |
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| Hawk soars near the San Joaquin River at Friant | And then perches on a post to have his portrait taken | Like swallows to Capistrano, geese return to the flood basins of Fresno | Frog in pond at the San Joaquin Gorge | |
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| Bald eagle near Pine Flat Lake | After we watched each other a while, he soared off | "Come into my parlour..." | Close up of a member of the class Oligochaeta | |
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| Snake at the Dinkey Lakes area in the Sierra | Rattlesnakes fighting near Eastman Lake | Jasper on the alert | A tiny spider occupies this bright yellow flower | |
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| Parkfield, a one-horse town | Wait a minute, there's another one! |
Bear by the Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park |
Same bear, IN the river | |
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| Marmot, relaxing | Marmot, wondering why we disturbed his nap | Cottontail rabbit by the Lewis Eaton Trail | The Goose Family enjoys a walk on the Old Town trail in Clovis | |
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| A major goose gathering | Mom and child, out for a morning walk in Lassen National Park | "Wait up, ma!" | North American river otter in the Feather River | |
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| The animal wasn't home, but left a delightful large web | Chipmunk in Montgomery Woods poses for his portrait |
Our neighbor at Sheep Creek Campground in Cedar Grove |
Three deer that visited our camp in Grant Grove in October, 2017 | |
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| Bobcat, Mariposa County, 2017 (Susan Crandall photo) | Rabbit on the Lewis Eaton Trail near the San Joaquin River | Ducks doing a circle dance | This frog is the perfect color for his surroundings | |
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| Dinner time | Watching "Breaking Cat News"? |
Mr. Toad lived in our back yard for a year in the 1960s |
Snow leopard at Cat Haven | |
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| One of Cat Haven's cheetahs | Marmot mom and baby | Boss Bird strutting near the Kings River (Wes Tthiessen) | ||
| At the Chaffee Zoo, Fresno CA | ||||
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| Feeding the giraffe (Teri Liddle photo) | Lunch time | Resting 'roos | Looks good in stripes | |
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| Living lawn ornaments |
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Enjoying a dust bath | Sea Lion | |
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| Flamingos in 2015 | African spurred tortoise | Donald Trump imitator | Cheetahs have room in the new African Adventure exhibit | |
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The rhinos also enjoy spacious new quarters |
African elephants | Cheetah up close in 2016 | Lots of room for giraffes to roam, and trees to munch | |
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| Rhino doing what rhinos do | Elephants still enjoying a spacious area | Living up to his "King of the Jungle" billing | Even with thick glass in between, this is scary! | |
