Date added
Feb. 4, 2010
06:23 PM EST
Description
I didn't actually notice this particular one until Ken-ichi pointed it out in my photo, but apparently they are cool.
Date added
Feb. 4, 2010
06:21 PM EST
Description
My photo is from a pond outside the Kasteel de Haar, which is a tourist spot outside Utrecht, but I very frequently see these guys in the canals of Amsterdam.
Edit: Just noticed yesterday that they have a very pointy, curved beak, nothing like a duck (probably because it's not a duck). Also, I was told that Mahler based some of the chords in his first and second symphonies on the noise that the Coot makes.
Date added
Feb. 4, 2010
06:06 PM EST
Date added
Aug. 28, 2008
10:30 PM EDT
Description
Not sure what kind of sandpiper it was. Pretty tiny- say, a bit smaller than a Mourning Dove. Saw it on the rocks at the jetty of Meigs Point.
Date added
Jun. 21, 2008
04:58 PM EDT
Description
Saw one of these guys in a shallow rocky area on the side of the river. There were also a ton of tadpoles in various spots along the river, at various stages of development.
Date added
Jun. 21, 2008
04:52 PM EDT
Description
Aka "yellow flag" iris. Saw these on the banks while canoeing on the Battenkill.
Date added
Jun. 21, 2008
04:48 PM EDT
Description
I'm not 100% sure that it was a great blue, but it was definitely a large heron. Saw it while canoeing on the Battenkill, sometime around noon.
Date added
Jun. 21, 2008
04:37 PM EDT
Description
Went canoeing on the Battenkill and saw a ton of crayfish in the shallow, rocky parts of the river.
Date added
Jun. 15, 2008
02:28 PM EDT
Description
Seen at the entrance of Hopkins Forest.
Date added
Jun. 15, 2008
02:23 PM EDT
Description
I went for a hike in Hopkins Forest and saw these near the entrance.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
08:24 AM EDT
Description
Chickens run wild everywhere in Kaua'i. I think of them as the squirrels of Hawaii.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
08:13 AM EDT
Description
I spotted this lizard on the side of the trail as I was hiking on the Napali Coast, probably around noon. After looking it up in The EcoTraveller's Wildlife Guide to Hawaii, it appears to be a green anole, but with brown coloring. I don't think it had a throat flap (although you can't tell from the pic), so either it's a female or just a flap-less male.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
07:52 AM EDT
Description
I saw this Nene (the Hawaiian state bird) along with several other interesting birds at Kilauea Lighthouse, a type of wildlife refuge on Kaua'i.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
07:42 AM EDT
Description
On a family vacation to Kaua'i, I was walking along Poipu Beach with my dad when he noticed a Hawaiian Monk Seal just lying around sunning itself. It stayed in the same spot for the entire afternoon, only moving to get away from the inward moving tide. Around 5 or 6, it flopped around and swam away. People were taking pictures of it all day, but it didn't seem to mind the paparazzi at all.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
07:30 AM EDT
Description
Spotted this guy on the road while I was driving at night.
Date added
Jun. 3, 2008
07:23 AM EDT
Description
I was driving along at night when I almost ran over this little guy. Luckily, I spotted him in time and he scampered off the road.
