Maui Fauna; November 2018
Maui's animals range widely from native (turtles) to invasive (deer). The images here don't pretend to catalogue that diversity; they don't depict insects, fish, or whales; they simply show what was close enough to be photographed. These are the animals that grazed, browsed, walked, or flew past the lens upcountry, that posed at the farmers' market, or that crawled out of the ocean. One wasn't even alive: the colorful dead lizard simply appeared on the grass and was still there, unmolested but desiccated, ten days later.
Barking deer are invasive but entertaining, even when they bark in the middle of the night.
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The resident sheep:
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A resident cat:
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Angora rabbits at the Kula farmers' market:
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Pheasants gobble like turkeys.
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Owls make rare visible appearances in silent and mysterious predator fly-bys.
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Local cows are easily puzzled.
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Setting sun backlights one of the neighboring cattle.
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Mass turtle crawl-out at Hookipea Beach; someone counted 75 turtles. A monk seal was beached half a mile away.
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And the dead lizard.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.