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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 December 7, here
December 12, 2018 and here
January 22, here January 24, here January
25 and here February 19, 2019 (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 |
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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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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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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