Subdivision Wildlife

Via Sven: “Feel free to use a picture from this selection. Please link back to the original on Flickr.”

Via Byron Annis, La Crosse WI (http://byronannis.blogspot.com): “Charles Annis took this picture in August 2008. Our uninvited and unwanted garden guest was startled as she was just starting to sample the hosta leaves in the salad-de-jour. If you look very carefully you may see a thin white line running more or less horizonally through the middle of the photo. This is our electric fence. Really effective, isn’t it?”

Via John Rutherford: “These photos where taken in Huntington Harbour/Bolsa Chica Wetlands preserve in Huntington Beach, CA…”

Via Martin Harris: “These are pictures of Bobcats taken by me in my backyard in Woodbury, CT in early December 2008. There were actually 3 of them…but I couldn’t get all 3 of them in the same photo.”

Via Earl Perry: “There’s a fair amount of auto damage to mule deer here, non-fatal as well as fatal. I’m wondering if this is the grownup of a little guy I saw a couple years ago with a badly damaged left pedicel. It’s also of interest that he’s solitary, when a lot of the bucks at this time of year have joined small mixed-age mixed-sex herds. Again, back yard.”

Via Dan Branton: “A King Snake battles a chicken snake in our drive here in the Mississippi Delta near Leland, MS”

Another photo from Earl Perry: “Our front yard, in a canyon about a mile from Boulder. An unusually red red fox; we have them in melanistic variants, some nearly pure black. Close look – it’s at the limits of crispness – shows a deermouse in the mouth of the fox. To be truthful, I know it’s there because I saw the fox take it and toss it; if I had only this photo to go on I would disbelieve.”

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Via Bob Palnik: “Shot by Betsy Palnik, North Kingstown RI”

Via John Bigenwald: “Nice picture of an owl in west suburban Naperville [Illinois].”