Originally posted by ramseybuckeye Tamia, thanks! Nice face, hope you didn't get too close to that snapper, I've seen them lunge.
Thanks, Tom. I used my Penny 50-200mm to get that shot of the snapper. She was very large, and after I took her picture I carried her to a safe place (she was on the road). She was quite heavy and feisty.
Anyone who wants to help snappers cross roads should read how to do it so neither turtle nor lifter (I call us Turtle Taxis) will get hurt -- they can stretch their necks back quite some distance, and up, too. I got advice from an expert turtle handler and who shows how in
Help Turtles Cross Roads.
Originally posted by BillM ...Tamia has great article on otters, get a chance its a great read...
Thanks, Bill. The article is
here. I was shooting pix on a riverbank and heard a caterwauling over the roar of the river. Discovered that young otters were stuck on a mid-river boulder and were calling to Mom. She came upstream a long way to help them back to the shore (opposite me). Unfortunately, I didn't get any good shots because I didn't have enough reach in the lens, and the brood were backlit with lots of glare, and it all happened so fast. Here's Mom hurrying back to the brood (1x1 crop):
And here are the kids:
Pete, I wish I'd had a chance to get close enough to the river otters I saw last summer so I could get as good a shot as yours.