An osprey swooped down and snagged a fish in a pond as Cliff Price watched. But this was no ordinary wild fish: Price says there are many goldfish in this pond, probably released by someone cleaning out an aquarium.
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Vern Lemasters volunteers at a massive national wildlife refuge in southern Illinois and enjoys photographing its diverse wildlife. He used a long lens to capture a dramatic shot of a great egret, hunting just before dark.
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Most white-tailed deer fawns are nearly three months old at this point in the summer and are weaned and eating grasses and soft vegetation.
They and their mothers have rejoined the herd, but the youngsters retain their spotted coats, at least for a few more weeks. You might astonish your kids by asking them to guess how many spots a fawn has.
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Herbie Self watched what could be called the “other oriole,” the seldom-seen orchard oriole, slurping up grape jelly. A bee buzzed in for some jelly, too, and the oriole added it to the menu.
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Isn’t this the truth: “It’s amazing the amount of wildlife you can see in your own backyard,” wrote Lew Troast Jr., after spotting a short-tailed shrew trying to drink from a birdbath sitting on the ground.
The little creature leaned over too far and fell into the water, but splashed out quickly.
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A recipe for possible disaster: A mother duck leads her ducklings toward a river’s shoreline. A coyote lopes down for a drink, discovers the duck family, and thinks it’s found an easy meal.
As Cliff Price watched, the mother duck strongly objected, flapping her wings and squawking loudly.
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Terry Kogowski was startled to find a hitchhiking cecropia moth attached to his tailgate when he arrived at his destination. “It stayed for a couple of hours, then disappeared,” he says.
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Is there anything more “aww”-inspiring than springtime’s red fox youngsters? Darlene Herbster knew where to look for kits this spring, because she’s seen the adult female in the same area for the past four years during her hikes. Herbster always stays on the trail, and the foxes have become used to her passing.
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Muskrats are semi-aquatic rodents that spend much of their lives in water, gathering and eating aquatic vegetation. The one spied by Bret Cool is bringing its prize, a “bouquet of leaves,” back to its den, maybe to feed its offspring. This cousin of the beaver is not really a rat and may raise up to three litters each summer, each litter having up to 10 pups.
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