S. M. Garver - Wildlife Photos - Assorted Creatures

This page contains armadillos, cats, chickens, opposums, otters, and squirrels.
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Eastern grey squirrel
[Squirrel is crawling on fours down a tree branch. Its tail is resting along its back and backside. The body is brown and white, but the tail appears to be grey.]

Another Eastern grey squirrel
[Squirrel is crawling on fours down a tree branch. Its tail is resting along its back and backside. The body is brown and white, but the tail appears to be grey.]

This squirrel was eating red berries on the Dahoon holly tree.
[Side view of a squirrel perched at the vee of a tree. While branches obscure part of its body, The head and front paws are fully lit and visible. The grey and brown tail is curved along its backside and back.]

Pine cone thief

The Virginia Opposum (common opossum) usually came to visit the pond right around dawn and was a quick mover so I had to take this image through the window in poor lighting.
[A grey-bodied animal with a white head with black eyes and ears wanders through the greenery on the ground.]

This opposum ended its life at the edge of the road. Opposum have a lot more teeth than I realized.
[This image of the upper torso of the critter .]

Armadillos have furry legs and bellies.
[A dead armadillo lies in the tall grass. This image contains the head and upper half of the body. The body is grey and white, but the belly is rust and white. Both the belly and the legs have long thin white hair-fur on them.]

The entire armadillo
[A dead armadillo lies in the tall grass. This image contains the complete body including the tail which is as long as the body. The feet appear to have sharp white claws on them.]

The topside of a different dead armadillo
[A dead armadillo lies belly down in the grass. Its chin/snout at the end of its triangular head rests on the ground and both ears are visible. The body is flattened as if a vehicle tire ran over it. The body segments are visible with the topmost one seeming to be partially pulled away from the rest. The body is a dark grey with tan segments on its lower side and at the edges of each segment.]

River otter swimming quickly away from me in the stormwater drainage canal.
[The otter is plowing through the water from right to left creating a deep wake. The upper half of its head and the very top of its back is above the water, so its left eye, nostril, and ear are visible. The fur has a light and dark brown striped appearance down the length of its body.]

The otter definitely saw me walking along the canal because it changed direction and found an opening in the face to scoot to the other side (image on the right).
Even discounting the length of its tail, it's a big otter.

This otter stopped to munch its fish. After a few bites, it continued swimming the channel with the fish in its mouth.
(Yes, there are fish that big in the stormwater channels.)

Quite a few feral cats in the area although some may have been pets let loose
This feral cat seemed to be thrilled I was taking its photo.
[This brownish cat sits atop a wooden post with its tail curled around its legs. It looks directly into the camera with its head tilted slightly down and cocked slightly to one side.]

I often saw this tiger-striped cat near the pond into which this pipe drains.
[A light-blue pipe surrounded by a concrete section sits at the bottom of a hillside. The cat is in the pipe so only its head is visible as it looks toward the camera.]

This white cat visited quite a few times for several months.
Here he is sneaking away after backing out of the hole in the ground in the next photo.
[An all white cat walks through the sparse grass from right to left in a somewhat crouched position.]

This is the hole from which I saw the cat emerge tail first.
It's possible there were baby nutria somewhere in the caverns to which this leads. Normal water levels would have this area completed submerged.
[A dirt hole into the hillside about six inches above the water line. There is various green vegetation covering the ground.]

I was surprised the Florida softshell who'd come out of the water to lay eggs didn't seem fazed by the presence of the cat.
The cat stayed there for a while then wandered away from the turtle.
[A zoomed out view of the same cat showing the large female turtle about five feet away from the cat. This turtle's shell is approximately 18 inches in diameter.]

Three chickens on or near the driverway (third is brown and near the wheel)
[A black rooster with its brown head and red headress walks across a driveway. An all-white hen walks across a different section of driveway. A brown hen walks in the grass at the edge of the driveway and beside the tire of a vehicle.]

A different rooster than the one in the prior photo
[A tan, red, and black rooster standing in the grass. Its curved tail is black as are parts of its main body. The rest of the main body is maroon and light brown. Its neck is light brown and it has a red crown on its head and red hanging from under its beak.]

A white momma chicken (behind the greenery) and her little yellow chick
[Amid the short greenery and leaves on the ground on the left side of the photos is a light-yellow chick with a yellow-brown head facing to the right. To the right of the chick behind green vines handing down from a fence is a white chicken who was leading the chick to a safe area away from people photographing them.]

This may be the chick all grown up.
[A nearly all-white chicken is starting to cross the road. It has yellow legs and a few dark feathers in its tail. It has a small tuft of red on its head and face.]

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