Lynx Photos

[DNPhoto]

Hi gang, it's been a while. I happen to have a day off in Whitehorse so that meant heading to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve to visit the lynx and other animals. I was excited to hear the lynx had kittens. There were two that were about two months old. They are so cute. On a side note they are doing an experiment by keeping the male in the same enclosure. In the wild the father doesn't help raise the young. They can also kill the young as they some times view them as competition. So far so good. Apparently the mother has been seen giving dad a good whack in the head if he isn't playing nice with the kids.

The enclosures are fairly big and the lynx like to hide. There were stretches of a couple of hours without seeing them. I guess that is where cat nap came from. I spent most of the day with them and these are some of the images I captured.



Lynx 70 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr



Lynx 51 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr



Lynx 23 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr



Lynx 62 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr




Lynx 36 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr




Lynx 78 by Dan Newcomb Photography, on Flickr

Shooting through a chain link fence isn't that great but it's always nice to see my favorite animal up close and personal. Something that is hard to do when shooting them in the wild. Thanks for looking!

On a different photography topic, my brother and I uploaded a new time lapse video on YouTube. We shoot these with our still photography gear. http://youtu.be/suWsd372pQE