Ann from Slow Shutter Speed A photographic journey hosts this weeks Lens Artists Challenge #225: Wildlife Close to Home. Wrote; Stop. Look. Listen. Doing those three things will help you discover the abundance of wildlife you have nearby. You have wildlife in your yard, nearby park, local pond or lake and just about anywhere around you.
My contribution this week are these images. Animal Photography is not my forte, I don’t have the patience or the equipment to get the best shots, but I occasionally get a shot.
Birds big and small that I have been able to capture. this type of photography is not my forte.
Capturing this Seal was just a happy break, I was at a right place at right time.
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 
Ritva, photographing wildlife may not be your forte, but you have some spectacular images here! I especially like the angle you took on the duck. I’m like you, macro is more my style and I don’t have a long enough lens to say wildlife is my passion. Well done, and thanks for bringing a smile to my morning.
Thanks Anne, your kind words warm my heart 🙂
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I love the third image (the one of the red bird taken from below). I love that composition.
Thanks you, It was a bid that rarely seen here in the south, I was lucky see birdwatchers pointing it out in the trees
That first photo of the squirrel is so cute! Looks like he brought his own little rope.
Lois, it ate our hammock rope 🙂
Oh, no! He looks too cute to have done that!
That duck image is gorgeous Ritva, and I loved the image of all the little ones on mama’s back!
Thanks Tina, happy to hear that the little ones were unfortunately so far away, but the they are so adorable
Your photos are absolutely stunning this week. Gorgeous 😀
Great captures! The squirrel and the little ones with their mama are my favourites1
Wowww. Beautiful subjects BEAUTIFULLY photographed. Excellent.
Thanks John for the BEAUTIFULLY in block letters, I appreciate it 🙂
Beautiful shots this week. I love your photographic eye.
The squirrels in the trees were fantastic.
Thanks so much for your nice comment 🙂
You are welcome.
The duck photo is stunning.