Look ma! I'm floating upside down, David Blaine eat your heart out.These are photos of wild monkeys that came out of the forest to forage this evening. I manage to get pretty close to the monkeys by not spooking them while they munched on this tree.
These are long-tailed macaques and they have a varied diet of fruits, leaves, small mammals and birds, shellfish and crabs, as well as human leftovers. Where I live, we don't feed them but allow them to forage naturally in the secondary forest. The troupe foraged for some time before retreating back into the thick forest for the night.
I spied this squirrel and was playing hide and seek with it. The shots that I wanted to share unfortunately were fuzzy as the little thing wouldn't stop moving. It's an art to be able to photograph wild life as your subjects will not cooperate. I tried shooting the swallows that were swooping around me but I just couldn't get a shot worth sharing. I just snapped and prayed that the birds were caught in the right position and composition. 
2 comments:
I love the first pic, must be hard to wait for this naughty creature hopping from one tree to another. Great pics, Shirls!
Thanks but don't try to do what I did. They are wild animals and they do attack when intimidated. I'm a trained professional. Ha! Ha! not. I just have a way with animals and guts.
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