Found a pair of red foxes today in nice condition, running around people's backyards!  Some nice photos are in Gallery/Flora and Fauna/Fauna. Enjoy. Some birds too in the Avian Gallery.

I watched two bucks and some females today for a while and got some nice photographs, this one I like because it shows the face and eyes and also the tail, all important features of a Whitetail.

Just as I was leaving I spotted this Belted Kingfisher with a fish, and what a fish!  Much too big to swallow so what would it do? Well after watching for a considerable time the Kingfisher still hadn't decided and was still sitting with the fish and trying to avoid other birds from stealing it!

Just look at all the colours!

Only when you look hard at small birds and animals do you begin to appreciate their incredible beauty, amazing colours right now in their breeding plumage. I'm going to include a male as well since they are astonishing creatures.

I'm not sure I've ever had the priviledge to film 3 snipe together at the same time. Lucky day.

Occasionally the river has a little snipe in it, often resting and often hard to spot.

With the cold weather the ducks are enjoying splashing about in the warmer water (relatively)! Found common merganser and hooded merganser females also. No mink today though.

Found my local mink again today and got some shots. Some behaviours are quite amusing. I find them fascinating to watch. They are very fast and very efficient at catching fish. I was filming ducks at first then the ducks were chasing something from the water, it looked like a big muskrat, of course it was the mink!

 Many more photos here.

Cranes on ice, that could be the name of the ice dancing show!  Cranes have got 3 toes and not much grip so they are comical when taking off on ice! See below for a link to more Bosque photos.