I wasn't quite sure what I was seeing at what seemed like a half mile away (probably more like 250 yards or so). Still wasn't quite sure until I processed my pictures. Turns out it was an extremely rare and critically endangered Red Wolf.
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_____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful!! While it doesn't really count, the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma is one of the only zoos breeding them. I've seen them many times there. What's neat is that at night you can hear them howling at the moon from over the Sound from far out on the water.
You take great photos!!!!
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November 24, 2019, 08:03 AM
Micropterus
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Originally posted by Loswsmith:
You take great photos!!!!
Thanks. That was the first picture I took on the NWR that day. I had my camera set on auto/vibration reduction. I am zoomed to a full 300mm which needs light and produces blur. Light was not great. I wish I could have had a better mount and longer exposure time and lower ISO.
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November 24, 2019, 08:46 AM
Kampfhamster
Beautiful!
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November 24, 2019, 03:32 PM
fiasconva
Since he's so rare you may want to contact the wildlife people and send them a pic. They may not know he even exits there. Great pic btw!
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November 24, 2019, 03:54 PM
Micropterus
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Originally posted by fiasconva: Since he's so rare you may want to contact the wildlife people and send them a pic. They may not know he even exits there. Great pic btw!
They know they're there. The Red Wolf was expirated from North Carolina but has been reintroduced to Alligator River NWR. Almost all the adults on the Refuge have radio and/or GPS-satellite tracking collars. I would be very surprised if the one in this picture didn't have a GPS collar on.
_____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau
November 25, 2019, 02:29 PM
jhe888
That is cool.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
November 26, 2019, 11:27 AM
patw
Gorgeous. It is amazing to see something like that in the wild.
November 26, 2019, 11:56 AM
TGA
That is tremendous.
December 01, 2019, 05:18 PM
coloradohunter44
Beautiful, but it belongs in far northern Canada.
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December 01, 2019, 07:16 PM
Micropterus
The Red Wolf is a southern and eastern wolf. Not native to Canada at all.
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December 10, 2019, 09:35 PM
coloradohunter44
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Originally posted by Micropterus: The Red Wolf is a southern and eastern wolf. Not native to Canada at all.
My point is we don't need any wolves in the lower 48.
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December 10, 2019, 11:08 PM
Dakor
^^^^ Yellowstone personnel would beg to differ. Without the wolf population, grazing animals caused havoc to that ecosystem over decades.
Thanks Micropterus for posting the pictures, which I found fascinating.
December 11, 2019, 07:43 PM
got2hav1
I grew up near there. Moved away after high school. Wolves and bears are prevalent there. Nice catch on that one.
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December 13, 2019, 11:12 PM
coloradohunter44
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Originally posted by Dakor: ^^^^ Yellowstone personnel would beg to differ. Without the wolf population, grazing animals caused havoc to that ecosystem over decades.
Thanks Micropterus for posting the pictures, which I found fascinating.
All I’ll agree to is that we do not agree on this. SSS.
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