Other Animal Planet Contenders.

[Solly Mack]

Pine Warbler in Winter




Can you see me? (Grass-like Mantis or Thesprotia Graminis)




Eastern Fox Squirrel



Indigo Bunting




Scarlet Macaw

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are great!

Nice captures, all of them.

[Solly Mack]

3. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy!

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Shit.

Those are all so incredible. I never have a chance with competition like this---and these are NOT your submissions. I am impressed.

(BTW, we always called that mantis a walking stick.)

[Solly Mack]

4. I think Johnny Noshoes and the turtle entries will all be in the top 10.

That means your entry.

I adore turtles.

I think the walking stick has a narrow head. Well, a head more streamlined with the body anyway.

Thanks, Curmudgeoness!

[Curmudgeoness]

7. I adore turtles too.

That is a photo of my baby that I headstarted for a couple of years from hatching. It was the last photo of her, since she was big enough to be released.

[Solly Mack]

8. I could hug you! I could sit and watch turtles all day.

And I have.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. If anyone lives in the area between Pittsburgh and Erie PA,

we are always looking for volunteers to headstart turtles. That one was my eighth.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Wow! Solly! These are all fabulous!

Hiding in plain sight!

Colors on all the birds!

Those little paws and whiskers on the squirrel!

And I swear that Pine Warbler is thinking, "damn, who ate all the sunflower seeds?"

[Solly Mack]

6. Thank you, mnhtnbb.

I do like birds.

[2naSalit]

10. Did you have trouble making up your mind?

I did.

[Solly Mack]

11. No. I let my husband decide.

He picks my entries more often than not.

[2naSalit]

12. That sounds like a good way to

select them. I spend a good hour over deciding each time, I've found.