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"BOYS WILL BE BOYS" - Wood Duck

May 17, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BOYS WILL BE BOYS" Wood Duck (& Mallard) - 10 Photos Except for the Mallard Duck in the last photo, the following photos highlight male Wood Ducks, who are most likely the runner-ups in the Wood Duck "The Bachelorette" real reality competition. They hang out together, eating, sleeping & relaxing (Photo #1 through Photo #5) but as frustration i...

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"BRIGHT LIGHT, BIG POND" - Coyote

May 12, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BRIGHT LIGHT, BIG POND" Coyote - 3 Photos Chilling out watching ducks & geese doing their waterfowl thing, mid morning. And then early afternoon, now left with an empty pond, I decided to move onto another venue hoping for some more photographic action. Packed up my equipment, trekked up the incline, rounded the corner and took one last look b...

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"MAMA NEEDS A MOMENT" - Beaver (North American)

May 07, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"MAMA NEEDS A MOMENT" Beaver (North American) - 5 Photos Having revisited the beaver pond late one evening this past weekend, I believe I have the answer to the relationship of the two beavers who were featured in the blog, "TAKE AN AWWW MOMENT" May 4, 2025. Again they were the first two beavers to head for the grassy bank but this time when th...

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"1-2-3 DOWN THE TREE" - Porcupine

May 07, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"1-2-3 DOWN THE TREE" Porcupine - 5 Photos I spotted a porcupine last Spring who was obviously pregnant (Photo #1). Although close to delivery, she had obviously not given birth as she spent an entire day hanging out in a tree and didn't retire to her den until late in the evening. If there had been a porcupette, she would have been nursing at lea...

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"BLESS THE CURIOSITY OF YOUTH" - Beaver (North American)

May 06, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BLESS THE CURIOSITY OF YOUTH" Beaver (North American) - 3 Photos Sitting along a creek downstream, waiting to see and hopefully, photograph beavers swimming by on their way to work. The first beaver that swam downstream was fairly large and took a side trip to the bank across from where I was sitting. A few clicks of the camera and he/she quic...

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"YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY" - Porcupine

May 04, 2025 • 1 Comment

"YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY" Porcupine - 6 Photos Note: The following photos may induce yawning & sleepiness:) There is nothing quite like spending a late afternoon/early evening watching a porcupine in a tree. There is no one secret to successful porcupine watching. First, of course, one has to locate a porcupine. Then you find a quiet, isol...

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"TAKE AN "AWWW" MOMENT" - Beaver (North American)

May 04, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"TAKE AN "AWWW" MOMENT" Beaver (North American) - 4 Photos Am not certain as to the relationship of the two beavers who appear in the photos that follow. One was much larger so they may have been siblings, separated by a year or perhaps an adult accompanied by last year's kit. But having swam away the lodge, they were never apart for long an...

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"THE POWER OF NATURE" - Beaver (North American)

April 30, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"THE POWER OF NATURE" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos Note: Some individuals may find some of the content below disturbing. Some years ago, I was party to a sequence of events that revolved around the removal of beavers from Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary, Alberta. I won't go into detail as to the who but trap(s) were set within the...

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"SPRUCE IT UP" - Beaver (North American)

April 29, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"SPRUCE IT UP" Beaver (North American) - 5 Photos The phrase "spruce it up" has a very different meaning for beavers come Spring. Now they may be also be attending to their appearance by grooming and re-oiling their fur but it appears from my latest visit to their pond, that these beavers have made another trip to the near by woods to harvest a...

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