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Leslie P Wild Photography
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Wildlife nerd/photographer and travel bum
Native kiwi, naturalised Canadian

www.lesliepoulson.com
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BIG NEWS! I was lucky enough to have this image selected as WINNER of Canadian Geographic Wildlife Photographer of the Year - ‘Things with Wings’ category for 2025! I’ve always considered myself a wildlife photographer, so I feel a little like Happy Gilmore having a macro image as my first win 😂🏌️‍♀️
Dew-covered damselfly, close up of just his face, and cuts off before his wings really start. His wee legs are grabbing onto his vertical perch of a couple of strands of grass. He is blue and covered in droplets of dew all over. Green background.
August 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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MONGOLIA: This is the manul or Pallas's cat. This stunning lady has four kittens tucked away in that crack behind her.
Visit www.steppewildlife.org for more info and to support the biologists that are fighting to conserve them. #mammals #manul #cat
A manul or pallas's cat slinks up a rocky slope with a vertical rock face behind her. She's a grey house cat size wild cat with orange backs of her feet, flat ears and a grumpy look on her face.
July 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This might be one of my favourite creatures on earth: the aye-aye or long-fingered lemur. They're nocturnal and unfortunately under threat due to habitat loss and some locals killing them due to believing they're harbingers of evil. #addMam #Madagascar
Night time, odd, wirey-furred lemur with large yellow eyes, pointy face and large ears mid-way stretched between two trees, looking back towards the camera. Huge long fluffy black tail dangles.
June 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Ranthambore, India
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I was trying to get a nice portrait of the family, but this happened ... 🫣😂 #birds
adult american robin stands behind its nest with four half-grown chicks sitting patiently waiting inside for the next feed. All the chicks heads are up and eyes open. A robin nest near the trunk of a small tree with four half-grown chicks in it. Adult robin stands off to the right and pulls a fecal sack from the ass of one of its kids
June 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I had the BEST day today, this is the first time I've seen a calliope hummingbird in the wild without a hummingbird feeder attracting them. It was amazing. They're BC's tiniest bird weighing 2-3 grams! STOKED. #birds
a calliope hummingbird sits on a tiny horizontal branch with a creamy green background. its red-wine coloured throat gorget sits splayed out, back and wings green.
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Kind of forgot about Bluesky … here’s a shot I felt privileged to get because these guys aren’t typically found in our area - must have been heading back from the winter irruption party! #birds #greatgreyowl
A large great grey owl in flight with a creamy dark blue mottled background. The owl is backlit, with its wings splayed out so they look lit up. Flying left to right.
June 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Last autumn a friend and I stumbled across this scene, a crab spider with a pretty decent sized bee in its clutches. Stoked with how the shot turned out. Focus stack of 25 images, OM-1 + 60mm macro + cygnustech diffuser. #photography #macrophotography
a white crab spider with two pink stripes on its abdomen has a bee in its clutches. The spider has its mandibles into the bee's abdomen, with its head at the bottom of the image and its super long tongue poking out. This is all happening on the underside of a purple flower. Back ground is black.
April 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This is an old one of a barred owl perched on a mossy log complete with licorice ferns from BC, Canada #birds #photography #owl
A brown and white striped barred owl sits perched on a mossy log with fern fronds growing out of it. The background is creamy green and the owls eyes are black
March 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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We had a rare visit from this stunning and very sleepy boreal owl the other day. Only my second ever sighting, but man was it a ripper! #photography #bird #owl #addBirder
A brown and white streaked boreal owl with a brown ring of feathers surrounding its face, speckled with white sits perched on a tiny branch from a small, burned tree trunk. The owl is looking to the left of the photographer and at the ground with yellow eyes. The owl is floofed up a bit because of the cold and wind.
March 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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For my bird nerd x severance homies
#severance #birds
A photo of female asian actor from Severance who plays Miss Casey/Gemma with text next to it saying 'your outie can differentiate a first year lesser backed gull from a herring gull'
March 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Red-legged grasshopper from last autumn covered in dew. Right now their eggs are a couple of cm deep in the soil lying dormant, when it warms up they will develop and hatch, the nymphs come to the surface and continue to grow into adults after a few molts #canada #macrophotography #photography
Macro photo of a red-legged grasshopper, which is mostly green with dark red arrow patterns on its leg, clinging to a blade of grass with a blue background. The grasshopper and grass are both covered in tiny dew droplets. Closer view encompassing only upper half of grasshopper body. Macro photo of a red-legged grasshopper, which is mostly green with dark red arrow patterns on its leg, clinging to a blade of grass with a blue background. The grasshopper and grass are both covered in tiny dew droplets.
March 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I have a really long story that goes with tomtits, too long for here unfortunately. But this is a ngirungiru or south island tomtit, unbiasedly the cutest bird in the world from my home country of Aotearoa New Zealand. I love him. #newzealand #aotearoa #nzbirds #tomtit #ngirungiru #bird #photography
A small, plump bird with a white breast with slight yellow tinge and black head is perched on a vertical ponga tree trunk with tiny green vine leaves under his feet and in the foreground. The background behind the bird is creamy green.
March 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This is a cuckoo wasp and found right in my front yard on my wildflower wall. I honestly thought I had to travel to tropical climates to photograph insects as colourful as this, but Canada delivered 🍁🐝 #canada #photography #macrophotography #colourful
An irridescent blue and green wasp, whose underside is coated in yellow pollen, sits on the petal of a pink wildflower. You can see the dimpled texture of its hard exoskeleton because it's a macro photo.
March 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Photograph of NZ Kererū perched on branch, in a very obliging way. Pic taken in my DSLR days in local forest, in Tāmaki Makaurau.
#birdphotography
Large bird perched on branch, head turned to the left. The ventral feathers are white, while the hood and head are an iridescent green. Wings are dark green. In the background are matipo leaves.
March 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Snowborb: a Procreate creation from the weekend, of a dark-eyed junco standing in spring slush. #birds #art #ProcreateArtist
Illustration of a very round dark-eyed junco, standing in snow that matches the white belly. Soft snowflakes are falling, accumulating on its head. The bird is looking up. The background is a teal blue.
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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One of my last shoots from last year before heading off on the winter travel adventures: an epic night of northern lights right at home! I felt hungover the next morning 😂 #photography #northernlights #nightsky #landscape #canada
A northern lights display over a lake with mountains rising up on either side. You can faintly see the yellow colour of the autumn leaves on the trees amongst the dark mountains. Lights display is bright green at horizon line with green and pink vertical shards further up into the night.
March 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Ok, this is the last of the 'new app better fill up my feed so people are interested' post rampage 😂 This is just your ordinary north american raccoon in an extraordinary location & pose. He ran up a tree after some rain and watched me from beyond the mossy branches. Highlight moment!
BC, Canada 🍁
March 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Anybody that knows me or has followed me elsewhere probably knows this image, it's one of my all-time favourites. A male grizzly bear in a cloud of his own huffed breath in the chill of the early morning.
BC, Canada 🍁
March 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This female Malagasy giant chameleon was a tricky one to find, she blends in super well with the leaves. The males seemed to be everywhere and obvious but the females hardly ever got spotted. I have no doubt they were close by most of the time, just using their excellent camo to evade our glances.
March 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Another beauty from Madagascar, the two-toned soft-nosed chameleon is a bit of a mouthful but a stunning subject. Only discovered/described in 2018 by science, it was exciting to come away with a shot of this handsome wee fella.
March 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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One of my favourite images, this northern pygmy-owl was hunting and allowed me to move to the side a bit so I could catch him backlit. Made in BC, Canada
🇨🇦🍁🫎🦫🦉
small brown and white owl perched on a thin branch with a dark background, backlit so his feathers light up in a halo around him
March 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This is a red-fronted brown lemur from the Tsingy de Bemaraha area of Madagascar. The lemurs were so thirsty that when they heard my water bottle crinkle against a tree they came hurtling down from the treetops to get a drink. I was feeding them the water out of the shell you can see beside him.
red-fronted brown lemur looking up at the camera from the ground with large old snail shell out of focus behind it
March 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM