Hot Furry Friends

Dogdots

We've had some hot days and our furry friends were out looking for water to drink or a way to cool down. Nothing fancy here, but thought I would just share them with you all. Hope you enjoy them.

This one thought it could find some water in our water guage.




This poor squirrel just laid on the fence in the shade panting.




Fun time at the watering hole




Oops! Lucky I heard this bird in the bucket before my Golden's went for a drink of water. Birds are always drinking out of the dogs water pail....this one must of slipped off the edge of the bucket. And yes....I slowly poured this bird out. It stayed around till it dried off and then took off

rwells

Glad to see some more "common" shots posted. I'd hate to think that every image posted has to be "wall-hanger" quality.

Dogdots

rwells wrote:

Glad to see some more "common" shots posted. I'd hate to think that every image posted has to be "wall-hanger" quality.

Ha....99.99% of my photos aren't wall hangers

rwells

Dogdots wrote:

Ha....99.99% of my photos aren't wall hangers

You know that's not what I meant

Azzaro

Nice series Mary.... I really like the one where they are all taking a bath......:D azzaro

Dogdots

rwells wrote:

You know that's not what I meant

I know Please don't think I took it any other way

Dogdots

Azzaro wrote:

Nice series Mary.... I really like the one where they are all taking a bath......:D azzaro

I had more fun watching them then taking the photos

Panther

Howdy Mary Kim,

really fun shots, looks like everyone was having a great time splashing around.

Lucky bird!!! You found it first!!!

Dogdots

Panther wrote:

Howdy Mary Kim,

really fun shots, looks like everyone was having a great time splashing around.

Lucky bird!!! You found it first!!!

The birds were having a blast and yes that bird in the bucket was lucky. My one Golden caught a sparrow long ago and took if for a swim with her in the kiddie pool. Not a good ending....

Thanks for commenting

redleash

Great shots, Mary--these are the kinds of shots you have to be lucky to get. I love the one of the squirrel on the fence!

Lauren

adbsgicom

Great series. I love the squirrel and the way you kept the birdfeeder in view that he's eyeballing, but really it's too hot to even bother trying....

Dogdots

redleash wrote:

Great shots, Mary--these are the kinds of shots you have to be lucky to get. I love the one of the squirrel on the fence!

Lauren

Thank you Lauren for you comment

That poor squirrel -- he just laid there for such a long time. We even went out to fill the bird dish with fresh cold water just in case it wanted a drink.

Dogdots

adbsgicom wrote:

Great series. I love the squirrel and the way you kept the birdfeeder in view that he's eyeballing, but really it's too hot to even bother trying....

Thank you for commenting on these photos

I take my camera out every time I take the dogs out to do "their thing". As for the feeders...they sure try to get into those buggers to eat.

DaddyO

I've never seen a squirrel do that. The birds in the dish of water look to be
having a blast. Glad the bird in the water bucket got out safe and sound.
Thanks for sharing these.

00SS

I really like #2 (squirrel), did you do any post to it? it looks tack sharp where it needed to be and the dof is great. And I to like to see 'common' photos as well

Dogdots

DaddyO wrote:

I've never seen a squirrel do that. The birds in the dish of water look to be
having a blast. Glad the bird in the water bucket got out safe and sound.
Thanks for sharing these.

We must have weird squirrels here I also have a photo of a squirrel sleeping I kept waking it up when I was taking it's photo so I had to be quiet.

Thank you for looking and commenting

Dogdots

00SS wrote:

I really like #2 (squirrel), did you do any post to it? it looks tack sharp where it needed to be and the dof is great. And I to like to see 'common' photos as well

That photo was taken at:

f5.6
1/500 sec
ISO 640
300mm using my 70-300 IS

Did some levels on it and then ran it through my noiseware plug-in. Changed the opacity of it some. That's all I did.

I like "common" photos too. It lets you see what people like to photograph when they aren't "photographing"