Category Archives: Mammals

Portland to Portland

We recently returned to Portland from a trip to Portland. My mother-in-law wanted her ashes spread near a favorite lighthouse in Maine so the family gathered in the Portland on the east coast and we spent a week visiting relatives … Continue reading

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White Claws, White Fur

Muskrats have brown fur like most of our aquatic rodents, but they aren’t solid brown. They have white patches near the tip of their nose and white bellies, and especially when their fur is wet you can see the white … Continue reading

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Rain Deer

After posting that I finally had gotten a picture of a deer at Ridgefield that I liked, the very next morning I arrived early in a heavy rain and found a doe and buck just past the entrance gate and … Continue reading

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Eating Green

I enjoy photographing in the rain so I haven’t minded the unusually wet spring here in the Northwest. This cottontail didn’t seem to mind the rain either as it ate in a meadow beside the Kiwa Trail at Ridgefield.

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Pride Goes Before Two Falls

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 A while back my teleconverter started overexposing everything by a stop, so I had to remember to deliberately underexpose to prevent from blowing out the image, something I … Continue reading

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