Akkana's Wildlife Photography

See also the photos from the SF Zoo and LA Zoo.

Collections of wild animal shots

	Birds: Wild birds of California (and some neighboring states), one or two shots per species. An ongoing project.
	Hummingbird Photos.
	Our Suburban Squirrels.
	Mockingbird chicks from a nest in the backyard. Or, if you prefer, the following year the same tree was used by mourning doves.
	Bird Feeder pictures: birds at the feeder, sparrows feeding their young.
	Red-tailed hawk shots from the Boccardo trail near Alum Rock in San Jose.
	Shorebirds at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, CA.

Some individual wildlife pictures

	The backyard of the last place I lived was full of squirrels, which were usually fairly camera-shy, but could sometimes be caught with the 500mm mirror lens.
	They like to carry walnuts from the tree in the backyard out onto the power line, where they feel more safe from cats than they do in the walnut tree.
	A kestrel up on Mission Peak.
	I saw this lizard on a local trail.
	I used to work near Shoreline Park, and it was nice to wander over there now and then and shoot birds. One of the most photogenic birds at Shoreline are the snowy egrets Nikkormat EL, Sigma 70-300 APO @ 300, Fuji Sensia 200.
	Curious harbor seal at Bean Hollow state beach.
	Seals napping on the rocks.
	In the Lassen campground were some strange-looking large bugs, one of which was kind enough to hold still while I set up a tripod and used the macro mode on my 70-300. I wondered whether this might be a Ponderosa pine bark beetle, based on a beetle book from the library, but a more knowledgeable naturalist tells me those are much smaller (less than 5 millimeters; this was more than ten times that size if you count the antennae). It's apparently most likely an Asian Longhorn Beetle (family Cerambycidae), an exotic pest.
	Small grubs -- termites? -- bore into the trees there, turning the wood to a slimy mess. You can see the termite's rear end poking out of the hole.
	This Canada goose was looking for a handout near Los Gatos Creek.