Colorado Porcupine
Quills
“Porc”
North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
Chugach State Park, Alaska
Canon 7D
Canon 100-400mm lens @ 400mm
1/1000 sec @ f5.6
iso 400
© Teklanika Photography 2014
“Little Porcupine”
North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
Canon 7D
Canon 100-400mm lens @ 330mm
1/320 sec @ f5.6
iso 200
© Teklanika Photography 2013
“Young Porcupine”
“Young Porcupine”
Porcupine in Alaska breed in the fall, and the young porcupine (usually one) is born in the spring.
North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
Chugach State Park, Alaska
06/08/2013
Canon 7D
Canon 100-400mm lens @ 400mm
1/200 sec @ f5.6
iso 320
© Teklanika Photography 2013
December 12, 2012
March 27, 2012
March 14, 2012
March 12, 2012
April 19 – 26, 2011
*Disclaimer: The following images involve natural predation and may not be appropriate for everyone.
March 29 – April 5, 2011
March 21 – 26, 2011
March 18 – 20, 2011
January 27 – February 3, 2011
Some new, some old…
December 23, 2010 – January 3, 2011
Some older shots that I’ve finally gotten around to processing, as well as a couple new ones from the last couple of weeks…
Some Older Shots – Finally!
I’ve recently had some time to work on older photos that have been sitting on the back burner for far too long…
Merry May Memories
It seems like May, one of my favorite months for photography, passed by so quickly this year… I spent a good portion of the month outdoors, and, with patience and luck, was able to see and photograph many of the wild creatures that call Colorado home: moose, elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, lynx, coyote, fox, porcupine, beaver, yellow-bellied marmot, muskrat, black-tailed prairie dog, abert’s squirrel, american pika, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, spotted ground squirrel, golden mantel ground squirrel, vole, great blue heron, canada goose, cackling goose, bald eagle, golden eagle, great horned owl, night heron, glossy ibis, osprey, cormorant, snowy egret, raven, mallard, cinnamon teal, wood duck, ring-necked duck, common merganser, redhead, red-tailed hawk, cooper’s hawk, prairie falcon, magpie, crow, steller’s jay, avocet, killdeer, northern flicker, bullock’s oriole, kestrel, kingfisher, mountain bluebird, broad-tailed hummingbird, red-throated hummingbird and a ton of other small birds.
A few snapshots from last month:
Only a couple of weeks until Spring yields to the dry heat of Summer, bring on the bears!
April 19 – 24, 2010
Soggy week, not very conducive to outdoor photography – I was able to make it to Chatfield SP early in the week and Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday, but other than that I’ve been sticking around the studio and processing photos.
There’s a fox den across the street from my mother-in-law’s house, I’ve been staking out the den in the mornings from 6 to 7 or so. The fox mom, dad, and 2 kits have made many appearances, but I’ve yet to nail any decent shots of the family (fingers crossed for this week!). I snapped this photo of another neighborhood fox one morning as she was attempting to carry two eggs in her mouth without breaking them. It was a slow, painstaking endeavor – frequently stopping to rearrange her precious cargo, jumping several 6-foot fences and even avoiding a couple of speeding vehicles on the way back to her den, without breaking either egg.
