Favorite wildlife photos

[sparky-elpaso]

What kinds of wildlife have you seen on your cruises?

 

This little guy in Australia seemed as interested in us as we were in him.

 

 

The Noisy Miner who came down to share our lunch at the zoo in Sydney.

 

 

We saw lots of different birds in Australia.

 

[c230k]

[Krazy Kruizers]

Great pictures!!

[H2Otstr]

[zackiedawg]

You're speaking my language, as I'm primarily a bird and nature photographer at home. When I cruise, I try to incorporate some birding and wildlife photography too, but obviously you're limited to what you happen to see in the brief time in port, and are dependent on the weather gods to give you pristine conditions to shoot, or you just have to accept grey skies and not-as-good results.

 

On my most recent cruise a few weeks ago, I captured the following...

 

Bahama mockingbird:

 

Bananaquit:

 

Brown booby:

 

Blue crab:

 

Magnificent frigatebird:

 

Red-lored parrots:

[zackiedawg]

As well as...

 

Brown pelican:

 

Fork-tailed flycatcher:

 

Three-toed sloth:

 

Grey capped flycatcher:

 

And a palm tree full of dozens of orange-chinned parakeets:

[zackiedawg]

Last year's cruise was very different - colder, and different animals...certainly not as many. I shot:

 

A lot of snow geese:

 

A very distant (and that's a GOOD distance for me, thank you!) black bear:

 

A ring-billed gull:

 

And jumping porpoises:

 

[dileep]

[scubacruiserx2]

Great work Justin !

 

 

Some birds from Sebastian Inlet :

 

 

White Ibis

 

 

 

 

 

Black Skimmers

 

 

 

 

 

Pain in the neck Egret

 

 

 

 

 

Bird bath

 

 

 

 

 

And a big gulp

 

 

[Esri]

Eagle - Raptor Rehab Facility, Ketchikan, Alaska - May 2011

 

 

Baby Orca Near Juneau - May 2011 (Badly focused, but hey! It's a baby whale!)

[c230k]

 

Tom :cool: