A Walk on the Wild Side

[+meralgia]

Have you found insects, arachnids, mammals, or cold-blooded critters while caching? Were you lucky enough to capture them with your camera or cell phone? Let's see 'em! And although I'm not an entomologist or mammalian researcher, I could try and help you identify them!

 

I'll get us started: here's a pic my friend, TECGeoJim, captured on a temp cache I placed at event:

It's a fishfly.

Edited June 11, 2008 by meralgia

[+Snake & Rooster]

Here is some 13 pages of critters found while caching in San Diego.

[+syfun]

Here's a fawn we almost tripped over.

 

Later the same day in a different park we walked by a doe.

 

And then a buck on the way out.

[+meralgia]

sweet pics!!

[+Kit Fox]

Bear Track (Piute Mtns)

 

 

Bear track Angeles National Forest

 

 

My friend Coggin's photo in the same area.

 

 

Mule Deer from afar.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 12, 2008 by Kit Fox

[+TotemLake]

Edited June 12, 2008 by TotemLake

[+La Fifi]

....can't ...resist...photography...threads....

 

From 'Its Coll Up Here'

 

 

On the way from here to here.

 

[+WRASTRO]

Hey TL, you already used all those pics on other threads. There must be some rule about double posting that you are violating.

[+SixDogTeam]

[+Stargazer22]

Mama bear and cub

 

Ospreys, I think

[+Voodoo7]

Best pic ever!!!

[+Voodoo7]

Spotted this guy in Brigantine, NJ

 

[+TotemLake]

Hey TL, you already used all those pics on other threads. There must be some rule about double posting that you are violating.

Hey... Asked and answered.

[+J-Way]

Ospreys, I think

I'm not an animal expert, but I'm pretty confident those are bald eagles, not ospreys. But I could be wrong

[+jbar]

This turtle and beaver were both near a cache.

 

 

[+StephenTravels]

Ospreys, I think

I'm not an animal expert, but I'm pretty confident those are bald eagles, not ospreys. But I could be wrong

 

yes, those are bald eagles for sure. I see them all the time up here (in addition-- it's our national bird ). Magnificent they are!

Edited June 13, 2008 by tsunami_KNUW

[+briansnat]

Saw this fellow on the way to a cache in MD a few weeks ago

 

 

Ran into this little guy on a cache maintenance run last spring. He was new to the concept of walking. I just sat

still on a rock and it walked up to me.

 

 

 

This one was on the way to a cache. We actually saw a dozen or so of the things in the same area. You rarely see these in NJ, so to see so many in the same place was amazing.

 

 

These things are pretty common here, but rarely will they stay still long enough to pose for photos.

 

Edited June 14, 2008 by briansnat

[+TeamAtlas]

An owl we spotted recently, it was huge with a wingspan of about 5-6 ft.

 

 

[+Stargazer22]

Ospreys, I think

I'm not an animal expert, but I'm pretty confident those are bald eagles, not ospreys. But I could be wrong

 

yes, those are bald eagles for sure. I see them all the time up here (in addition-- it's our national bird ). Magnificent they are!

 

I wasn't too sure if they were bald eagles or not. They didn't seem to be large enough for eagles, although we do see eagles around here all the time, as well as ospreys.

They were being very vocal that day. You can see one of them has his mouth open.

They flew across the trail right in front of us about 75 feet away and lit in the tree. This was just about 2 mintues after we saw a deer jump across the trail, too.

[+Snake & Rooster]

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for resurrecting this one. I remember when you first posted it. It's got to be one of my all time favorite forum pictures.

[+meralgia]

I stand corrected--i posted the first pic to whatsthatbug-dot-com, and they said, "Hi Karen, this is not a Fishfly. It is a common Stonefly in the family Perlidae."

[+Dave1976]

I came across this guy while on the way to "Gorge"ous GCPETB