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"LOOKING FOR LOVE" - Mule Deer (Male)

October 15, 2023 • Leave a Comment

"LOOKING FOR LOVE" Mule Deer (Male) - 7 Photos Was hoping to have another encounter with a small grouping of Mule Deer does & youngsters, when I found a couple of does and their offspring at the end of a meadow next to a small grove or copse of trees. I set up and started taking photos when there was some rustling in the fallen leaves surroundi...

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"MUSTELID MISCHIEF" - Mink (North American)

October 11, 2023 • 1 Comment

"MUSTELID MISCHIEF" Mink (North American) - 6 Photos Minks may be small in size but huge in energy. The lighting in the first three photos differs from the last three because of a quick change in positioning from north to south by this mink. You never know where a mink is going to pop up (and it's not only weasels that go "pop") and for how lon...

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"NOT SO MULISH" - Mule Deer

October 10, 2023 • 1 Comment

"NOT SO MULISH" Mule Deer - 5 Photos Mule deer which are native to Western North America are so named because of their ears, which resemble, yes you guessed it, a mule. And that would be where the similarity ends, particularly when agility comes into play. They can "prong" right up there with the Pronghorn, covering great distances with their b...

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"CATCH ME WHILE YOU CAN" - Mink (North American)

October 10, 2023 • 1 Comment

"CATCH ME WHILE YOU CAN" Mink (North American) - 5 Photos The best time to catch minks with photography generally is when they are pre-occupied with fishing, in my experience. They can pop up from hidden spaces, then disappear & reappear some distance away. This mink, obviously, had an appointment with a favourite fishing hole so having popp...

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"WHAT IS IT?" - Muskrat

October 10, 2023 • Leave a Comment

"WHAT IS IT?" Muskrat - 7 Photos Saw this little mammal swimming towards a small peninsula in the pond. At first I thought it was a muskrat, then well maybe a mink and then it was back to a muskrat again. Once it came out onto land, I could see it was a muskrat but a very very wet muskrat, with some pond sediment probably mixed into its fur, wh...

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"THE BEAVER PORTRAIT STUDIO" - Beaver (North American)

October 10, 2023 • 1 Comment

"THE BEAVER PORTRAIT STUDIO" Beaver (North American) - 9 Photos One may question why you would have a portrait studio for a rodent but how could you not love that gorgeous beaver face with those relatively small ears and huge nose. And if you look closely, you can see that beavers actually have fur/hair on their noses, particularly the older ones...

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"IT'S NOT ALL WORK" - Beaver (North American)

October 04, 2023 • Leave a Comment

"IT'S NOT ALL WORK" Beaver (North American) - 9 Photos The two beavers in the following photos are two siblings in a family of at least six beavers. There are two more younger ones, born the following year. Although each beaver has its own set of tasks, the two sets of siblings do appear to hang out as pairs at various times. I spotted one of t...

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"THE ARTFUL DODGER" - Mink (North American)

October 04, 2023 • Leave a Comment

"THE ARTFUL DODGER" Mink (North American) - 6 Photos I thought what a great nickname for this agile & expert escape artist, namely the North American Mink. It's usually a "now you see me, now you don't" type of scenario, particularly if the mink is not pre-occupied with fishing. Add in that body type & camouflage and it seems to disappear compl...

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"I'M A LUMBERJACK & I'M OKAY" - Beaver (North American)

October 04, 2023 • Leave a Comment

"I'M A LUMBERJACK & I'M OKAY" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos To quote that famous line of the Monty Python "Lumberjack Song" - "I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay I sleep all night and work all day" I don't know about the "sleep all night and work all day" part for this beaver, although he/she was out during the latter part of an afternoon do...

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