Ty Smedes Nature Photography


Favorite Nature Images of the Year - 2014

Welcome to "Favorite Nature Images" a gallery page featuring my own favorite photos, selected from among my best images of the current calendar year. I will continually add images to this page, as the year progresses, so you may enjoy many of my most exciting images of the year. Just click on an image to view an enlargement.


Winter 2013/2014

 


Giant Kingfisher (female) with Freshwater Crab


Yellow-billed Kite Swooping a Lion with Zebra Kill


Sitatunga in Botswana Marsh



Malachite Kingfisher - Okavango Delta, Botswana

 


Cattle Egret - Okavango Delta, Botswana

 


Bateleur Eagle - Botswana

 


Martial Eagle - Botswana


Pearl Spotted Owlette - Botswana

 


Yellow Mongoose - Kalahari Desert Botswana,


Tawny Eagle (Light Morph) Kalahari Desert -Botswana

 


Sunset - Kalahari Desert, Botswana




Leopard in Tree - Botswana

 


Bald Eagle Diving for fish


Bald Eagle with Gizzard Shad

 


Bald Eagle with Gizzard Shad




Bald Eagle Diving for fish


Spring 2014

 


Sora Rail Reflection


Clapper Rail

 


Scarlet Tanager eating Mulberries




Kentucky Warbler (male) bathing

 


Hooded Warbler (Immature Male) bathing


Golden-winged Warbler (male)

 


Worm-eating Warbler Reflection




Black and White Warbler (male)


Summer 2014

 


Raccoon Reflection


Coyote & Pup at Den

 


Red Fox Kits at Den




Periodic Cicada (17yr) Emerging from Nymph


Loon with food to feed the hungry youngster


Common Loon Head close-up with beads of water

 


Crab Spider on Sunflower



Green Tree Frog on Sunflower leaf


Fall 2014


Redtailed Hawk Stooping towards prey



Redtailed Hawk Stooping towards prey

 



Mink with Chipmunk



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