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| Notice the "I am trying to concentrate" look on the young one's face. |
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| Inspecting the camera |
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| Cannonball!!! This is one of my favorite images of the past year |
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| Just to illustrate that sometimes the 8-legged critters find your camera a wonderful place to set-up shop. This usually leads to the camera trap blues. |
I know that was a lot of raccoon pictures. More than most sane people would want to look at, but these are only a fraction of the ones I could have posted.
Nice setting and shots -- a real redwood creek scene. Any giant salamander larvae in that creek?
ReplyDeletewe didn't see any, but it wasn't for lack of looking. This was about as low as the water level was going to be, so expect them somewhere. Maybe the raccoons already cleaned up this spot.
DeleteBeautiful location for a camea trap set!
ReplyDeleteThanks Trailblazer. I will have another post (or two?) from this set.
DeleteRaccoons are cool. Especially when you get series of shots in such a setting. You might try something I noticed recently - if you put the series of raccoon foraging pics in a viewer ala picasa, that allows you to quickly flip through them like a movie, you can see the changes to the rocks the raccoons move and flip as they're foraging along in the dark.
ReplyDeleteGood idea RT. In a simlar fashion did you hear the radiolab about the civil war photos and the cannon balls on the road with a second photo almost exactly the same but without the cannon balls on the road and trying to determine if the photographer had staged the image. Rocks played a key role in the mystery.
DeleteAdding, the raccoons were mid-creek in almost all of the photos. The only two where they came ashore were the "cannonball" and "checking out the cam" shots in this post.
DeleteDiving raccoon is incredible. I think it is going for the Triple Lindy.
ReplyDeleteImage is the 2012 2nd place winner after Stoned Bobcat.