The Rut has begun

May the best buck win.

Seeing Eye to Eye

Seeing eye to eye, and a Great blue heron, and a couple videos. I hope you enjoy them.

I've never captured two before, in one picture.

But I did this time. Two red foxes.

I don't know what they are doing. They don't seem to be fighting, and their breeding season is in the middle of the winter.

This is the time of year when the families split up and the young have to go out and find a territory of their own, so that could explain the pictures. Or perhaps it's just an odd coincidence.

And a great blue heron stopped by to say hello as well. Beautiful birds, aren't they?

And we'll leave with one last. I love the eyes in this one. Look closely in the center of the photographs and you'll see them. Based on the other photographs in the sequence, I'm sure it's a raccoon. 

It's hawk migration season. Cromwell is a great place to watch. 

https://www.hawkcount.org/siteinfo.php?tab=inv_t&rsite=621&dyearsel=2016

Don't forget to go outside and play.

Meanwhile, at the watering hole...

I don't really have a lot to say about these photographs. They're all taken at a small pool in one of the creeks in the park.

It's been a lovely summer. Enjoy the photos, I hope. And don't you wonder if foxes wish they had opposable thumbs?

No trolls.....

....but there are some other animals spending a lot of time under the bridge. Their photographs are below.

When I first saw one of them, I thought it might be a beaver. I believe that is a pretty good example of what birdwatchers call expectancy bias. Where the hope of seeing a thing tends to distort your vision of what you actually do see. Scroll through the pictures and see if the same thing happens to you....

Don't forget to go outside and play.

A small adventure in the night.....

The Comings and Goings of a Common grackle