Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales hunting bottlenose
My photos were taken off the coast of San Diego as this pod traveled roughly between Torrey Pines southward toward Mission Bay while we were observing them.
I sent this photo to a Forest Service friend who along with state and federal biologists were able to trap and collar her. She is the first female grizzly to be collared in Washington State. I have (trail camera) photos from the following year of her two cubs in my other observations.
Sometimes you just gotta mash the shutter for too long
Feeding on crustacean (crab or crayfish). In corner of old concrete stock tank with no outlet — prey may have been caught and unable to climb out.
Part of a strange.... structure. I am not associated with it's construction.
...I am also not responsible for the cigarette
Local fauna munchin’ on invasive fauna!
Caught a fish and was attacked by a red-shouldered hawk. Fended off the hawk and ate the fish. Hawk observation is https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194751662.
hognose?
Pod of at least 3 or 4, including one calf. Adults all appear to be female. Observed attacking a Common Dolphin, possibly teaching the calf to hunt.
About 25 mm long. Matthew, I have emailed you re these.
A large (10ft+) Burmese python being attacked by an alligator.
a Male Barred owl from an established mating pair I followed for the last 4 years, raided a local crows nest. the crows gave chase.
Mud Snake (Farancia abacura) eating a Three-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum). Found by Nick Haertle.
A very large (for the species) P. trigonatus (Dwarf caiman) predating of a very large (for the species) C. caninus (Emerald tree boa) in the middle of the day. This is definitely one of my most exciting observations ever.
Motherly love
In El Campo area pig bitten and then kill snake, what species is snake, different pattern
Eating a Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake while a pesky Northern Mockingbird tries to push it off its perch. Two young Loggerhead Shrikes watch from a distance in amazement.
Caught a magpie and fox playing a bit and chasing each other around (mostly on behalf of the magpie). The bird isn't actually sitting on the fox, as cool as that would have been, it is just standing in behind. (You can see this in the third image link below!)
Wish I had taken a video but my camera quality was not good for it at the time. I did however capture some burst shot gifs of the interaction, which you can view here :-)
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This sighting is for the magpie. The fox observation is here: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/182830925
Photograph and observation credit: Kaitlyn Perez
Depredando Lepidochelys olivacea
Uh, wow. In my driveway.
Successful hunting!
Coyote with missing nose and top jaw. Seen near some part of 6th ave, this was a friends post. Seen around noon today, July 27 2023
Voracious spider captured hummingbird in web at sugar feeder. I did not think about location of web, other than it was uncomfortable to avoid when going through garden gate, when I rehung the feeder. A few hours later, she had trapped and beheaded and wrapped the hummingbird.
Caught a mating pair of damselflies they should have practiced safe sex!
Eating a Brown Rat.
Water snake eating a Mudpuppy on the shore of Grundy Lake.
The last second of a petrified adelie penguin
Cheetah has had enough of the vultures hanging around the kill and she rushes it. This one was accompanied by what appeared to me to be two nearly grown cubs. Added photo that shows all three animals under tree.
4 Wild dog (one alpha male, 3 yearling cubs 2 x f, 1 x m) chased a female bush buck in to a shallow pool on the Chongwe River. A small crocodile swam up and took a bite and did a death roll. The bushbuck then dragged the croc out towards the Wild Dog who then dragged it up the bank with the croc still attached. It took them a while to kill the bushbuck but by then the croc gave up
I watched this event for approximately sixty minutes, before leaving the area. I returned later to find that the elk survived.
Sea lion deep in the Delta - was massacring the largemouth bass population. It caught and devoured nine big bass in about an hour...clearly they didn’t evolve with a predator like a sea lion around and seemed like they had absolutely no capacity to escape!!
Trifecta!! Competing in tug-o-war with a common garter snake for adult female cascades frog prey. Amazing rare observation!
Published observation in Herpetological Review as a note:
Garwood, J., and N. Garwood. 2020. Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi (Valley Garter Snake) and Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus (Oregon Aquatic Garter Snake). Foraging Competition. Herpetological Review 51:881-881.
The California Striped Racer is trying to swallow an Alligator lizard, while the lizard is biting its own tail. The lizard got away.
A large black caiman feeding on a spectacled caiman in Bolivian Amazon.
In process of swallowing a ribbon snake
Several pods of Orca came together to make the first kill of a Gray Whale in the Monterey Bay during the 2021 Northbound Migration.
I was photographing a Robber Fly with it's prey item (a Robber Fly, which had captured a small native bee, both shown in last photo). I didn't even know the Anole was nearby until it suddenly pounced on the Robber Fly. The Anole ended up gulping down both the Robber Fly and the Bee.
Eating a Rufous Owl Ninox rufa.
While the quality of the photo isn't great, I clearly observed (with binoculars) the shape of the python's head, its slender body, and its colour (pale grey with darker, sparse, markings) which all suggested the ID of Oenpelli python.
Observed in a patch of monsoon forest beside a sandstone scarp.
I heard a loud call from a bird and found this female Tarantula had come out of her burrow and grabbed this bird.
Thought the bird was stuck in a net/line, went to help and saw that a snapper had it by the leg
Caught in the act! :O
Found this guy dead with a sparrow, absolutely wild. Assuming he got hit by a car mid dive
A “gallina de palo” as they are called in Puerto Rico, apparently got hit by a car. In her last burst of life, she left her eggs behind on the grass. I’ve never seen anything like this as all her eggs seemed to be in one long membrane tube. Puerto Rico’s Iguanas flourish in March and April as the heat begins to increase.
Spotted on the way to work one morning!
This was in an Industrial area and had no Collar. So I'm not sure if it was feral or someones pet.
Saw this dead Monkey during a dive in Bali
Cypress
Harassing the snowy owl. Note, the cooper's hawk is banded