Because, photography! ( pic heavy )

[Dogma]

 

[Ferguson K]

Cuties!

 

[Ferguson K]

I've been in South Texas the last few days. My dad runs a large deer ranch down here. Getting to spend time with him this Christmas has been absolutely wonderful. Getting to spend time away from home, from the stress and go of everyday life has been amazing.

Here's a few of the great moments captured on film. Wildlife photography was once upon a time what I planned on doing with my life.

1. ) Blue Scale Quail - male, heading to sentry duty.

2. ) Blue Scale Quail - same male, taking up a sentry post on our trailer.

3. ) Young buck coming up to the protein feeders.

4. ) Six year old buck coming in to feed.

5. ) Oriole

6. ) Yellow butterfly, not sure what kind.

7. ) Mockingbird.

8. ) Cardinal

9. ) Another Oriole

10. ) More Blue Scale Quail - running from a predator in the sky.

I have tons more... but these are my favorites. sort of.

 

[Southern by choice]

So cool! The quail- are they in abundance there? Very interseting color. My DS would be drooling over the bucks!
Love #5 with the Oriole.
Glad you are enjoying time with your dad!

 

[Ferguson K]

They are definitely everywhere here. My dad has spent a few years now helping with habitat and predator control to allow the quail to bloom. Just six years ago there was so few on this ranch you wouldn't see them. Just up by base camp there's hundreds of them. Not including throughout the property ( 6000 acres ). He's done wonders.

I LOVE the Oriole's out here. There's three kind. I wish I had a better lens so I could get a close up of some of the ones that refuse to let me near.

 

[Latestarter]

Those bucks are to drool over... Is it a private hunting ranch or one that has hunters pay to hunt? I was doing a little looking around and was aghast at what some of the hunt camps "charge" for a mature buck whitetail deer... We're talking thousands of dollars! Maybe an acquaintance of the daughter of the ranch manager could get a discount?

Thanks again for sharing your pics, they are beautiful.

 

[Ferguson K]

Those bucks are to drool over... Is it a private hunting ranch or one that has hunters pay to hunt? I was doing a little looking around and was aghast at what some of the hunt camps "charge" for a mature buck whitetail deer... We're talking thousands of dollars! Maybe an acquaintance of the daughter of the ranch manager could get a discount?

Thanks again for sharing your pics, they are beautiful.

LOL!!!

It's private. Owned by a major carpet/builder corporation. Employees only. Occasionally they let wounded soldiers and such hunt though.

 

[Ferguson K]

It was a beautiful day to be a pollinator around here. I had fun chasing bee's and wasps until I accidentally found a red wasp nest.

Whoopss.

 

[CinnamonEli]

Oooooo photography thread

 

[Beekissed]

1. Mountain stream

2. Apple tree on a pink morning

3. Jersey/Angus hiefer, Shade

4. Bluegrass Valley, VA~a 42 mi. long valley in Highland County, VA

5. After an ice storm, the sun appeared...view from the front porch.

6. Brown dog, brown leaves...Jake

7. Pumpkin harvest

8. Fire on the mountain, lightning in the air....gold in them hills. Sunset over the ridge.

9. Snow and sun

10. X2

11. My thinkin' bench...I sit here and talk to God, think of projects to do on the homestead, etc.

12. Great Grandma's Cabin...it's where love lives.

13. Apple blossom

14. Little schweety, little puddle, big fun.

15. Baby blue eyes

16. Chicken family portrait.