Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[monadnocky]

new muncher

... beautiful pic...
My first gig out of college was interning in wildlife rehab - both in Washington state as well as eastern MA. I can't tell you how many people would come to us with fawns this size, claiming maternal abandonment.
Still makes me grouchy.

[j44ke]

... beautiful pic...
My first gig out of college was interning in wildlife rehab - both in Washington state as well as eastern MA. I can't tell you how many people would come to us with fawns this size, claiming maternal abandonment.
Still makes me grouchy.

Virginia creeper makes up a large percentage of the undergrowth on our property in summer. Our neighbors across the street have a large grass lawn. So the does stash their infants on our property and cross the street to eat grass. Eventually the fawns get hungry and start bleeting and walking around. So for the first couple weeks, they are trivial to find. After that they get better coordinated and super fast. On the doe’s signal they fire the jets and disappear.

[bbillington]

I think those are both black rat snakes. One is just a smaller male with subdued pattern that will eventually fade to black as it ages. The female looks like a 700x28 tubular tire.

They tend to pause at the center of whatever trail or MUP they’re crossing, on many occasions I’ve bunny hopped or swerved dramatically to avoid rolling over them. The male in the photo I posted was bleeding all over his head. I wonder if the female did that or if there was another male he fought off?

[mnoble485]

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As seen at the elk sanctuary. Is sanctuary the right word?

Mike

[open roader]

[j44ke]

I kept hearing a doe in the woods fffffftt-ing, which usually means she's unsettled about something. And she kept doing it. So I walked into the woods, and a ways in, she jumped up and raced off. Then a vulture took off out through the trees. I thought hmm maybe the fawn has died. Instead I found this.



We have Cooper's hawks, Red-shouldered hawks and Broadwing hawks all nesting in the vicinity. I'd put my money on the Cooper's hawk given the agility required to snatch a Pileated woodpecker off a tree.

[DJB]

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Decoration on a fence at the Louvre

[open roader]

Some people have fairies in the bottom of their garden, we have these...........

[j44ke]

Some people have fairies in the bottom of their garden, we have these...........

I prefer those. I like that they've put a little grass in their mouths before commencing with the boxing match.

[bking]

I prefer those. I like that they've put a little grass in their mouths before commencing with the boxing match.

The guy on the left did it to mock the guy on the right. It all went downhill from there. I've seen it before.

[bbillington]

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[open roader]

/\ Wow! Grippy tyres!

[Ras72]

/\ Wow! Grippy tyres!

^^ his garden has fairies...

[bbillington]

I have, as predicted, become just another “old” person challenged by technology.

[claritycycler]

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^>
Apologies if you wanted to post pic as above...

[bbillington]

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Let’s see if I can fuck this up.

[j44ke]

When I looked up from my book, they were on the porch. She saw me and dragged the fawn out into mid-yard. Then she decided not-safe and trotted off with the fawn tripping on everything to keep up.



Sort of looks like she's standing over a paper bag. That's the fawn. Tiny.

[rwsaunders]

When it’s mid-June and the temps are still in the 50’s in the morning.

[rwsaunders]

[j44ke]

Mom.



About 2" long.