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Dick's Animal Pictures |
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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 October 25, here December 7 and here December 12, 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) | Ruffled grouse in Yosemite | |
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| Steller's Jay at McArthur-Burney State Park | Wild turkeys at China Camp State Park near San Francisco Bay | Baby rattlesnake at Hensley Reservoir, November 2018 | Geese on a Clovis flood basin | |
| 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! | |
