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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
March 18, 2024 (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 |
Steller'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 |
Nothing like
rolling on the
pavement on a warm spring day |
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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 |
Butch the Cat of
Duluth MN
(April 1, 1992 - May 24, 2013) |
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Butch, ready to ship
(Butch photos
by his person, Linda Estel) |
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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 |
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
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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
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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
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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
such a thing 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
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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
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"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
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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
for a while, he soared off |
"Come
into my parlor..." |
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
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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 |
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March
of the cattle |
Massive
flight of birds over
the San Joaquin Valley |
Mounted
Fresno PD officers on a
training ride at the Jensen Ranch |
Bo
stalks the wild turkeys |
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Happy cows on the
hills above Pine Flat |
Raven in Arches National Park, Utah
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Buffalo on a small ranch
on Utah
Highway 24
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Big mama, big baby
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Birds
on the wire |
Taking the kids to the park
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Geese on Lake Millerton
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Thanksgiving for the Neely Cats:
Pebbles, Mr. Bibs, and Bam Bam
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A
flock of ravens above Lake Millerton |
Woodpeckers were busy
on
a January day in 2020
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Blue Jay flight near Lake Millerton
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Curious cows at the Dry Creek
Preserve in Tulare County
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Cows
going somewhere important |
Red Tail Hawk above the Eaton Trail
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Western pond turtle near the
San Joaquin River Center
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Eagle flight
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Cows
enjoy spring grass along
Trimmer Springs Road |
Mr. Bibbs on the wood pile
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Ducks at Manzanita Lake near North
Fork
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Bird's nest at North Fork Ranger
Station
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Geese
on the Enterprise Canal in Fresno |
Eagle standing guard above the
nest
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Big babies
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This
colorful fellow is a western tanager |
Gopher
snake at Ahwahnee Preserve |
Parents keep watch on the kids
swimming in the Dry Creek Canal
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Sandpipers at San Simeon
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Elephant
seals near San Simeon |
Neely
cats new
for 2021 - Newton and Peanuts |
Turtles in pond at Ahwahnee Hills
Park
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Juvenile
western skink |
Baby
birds, in the shell |
This
handsome fellow was fence-sitting
across from my garage in November 2022 |
This cat greeted us when we arrived
for a hike at the Finegold Picnic Area
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Peanut
and Newton, ready
for a hike on the leash |
High
Falutin' Newton |
Bald
eagle at Millerton Lake, January 2023
(Both eagle photso by Wes Thiessen) |
He posed for a while, then
had enough and took flight
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This
little green frog is at home in a tiny seasonal creek above Pine
Flat Lake |
Yosemite,
May 2023: 100 yards across a flooded meadow, this bear gave
us a brief look, then went back to the important task of foraging
for breakfast |
Turtle at Ahwahnee Hills Park
(Crandall)
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One
of the world-famous Oatman
burros |
They
make themselves at home in town |
Nearby,
a rare sighting of a bighorn |
Pteranodon, not found alive
anymore, but still an animal
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Rattlesnake
on the Bass Lake Dam |
Goat
by the Dry Creek Canal in Clovis CA |
The
little one grazed lying down |
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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 |
The endless hunt for
more ants |
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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! |
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