This was just a small section of a MASSIVE cluster of lady beetles. I scanned the image and can't see any that are clearly a different species.
Tooting and walking around. I think this individual is the one who had an injured wing a few years back and always shows up alone. I don't think it can keep up with the other swans during migration.
Here's a video link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DAADNfmsy0k
I think someone is in a bad mood...
This has got to be the most morbid thing that I have ever found in nature that I photographed. A deer that had its stomach opened up and was being eaten by magpies while still alive. This was something that I just never saw on any of my frequent trips to Yellowstone NP when I was younger. It was very unsettling.
Thrashed about by a sea lion
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
Scoggins Valley Park
50250 SW Scoggins Valley Road
Gaston, Washington County, Oregon
While driving around the road that circles the large lake at this state park, we encountered and briefly observed a smallish black bear that appeared to be alone and busy foraging. It was eating berries from the many berry bushes adjacent to the road.
I just love the new hat this fellow has, but why does it look more bird-like then hat like...