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First Snowfall (2025)

The first snowfall comes with a newfound sense of pristine, crisp joy. Blanketing the resting earth, it serves as an insulator….but in the midst of its boreal duties, it can’t help but add beauty to everything it touches, while preserving the beauty of everything that touches it.

As a natural, blank canvas of time lapsed photography, it captures every footprint, paw pad, dragging tail, marking, or any passing of every creature that slinks through the night. First captures: Red Fox tracks and River Otter slides with paw prints in its trek, and a Muskrat’s burrow.

Red Fox Tracks Over a Log
Otter Slide on River Bank
Otter Track in its Slide
Muskrat Burrow with Tracks and Tail Drag

Wildlife Watch…

MUD_0032 noontime sniff
The foxes are in! Dens are unearthed and frequented in preparation for the wriggling bundles of pure fox joy.

Debut of the red fox accompanied by the rollout of the red carpet…. or red sand rather.  Recently showing signs of fresh use in the recent snow storm, the den now is in heavy use.  In his first photographed appearance of the whelping season, he shows off his winter physique and full-bodied fur, healthy from his tip of his snout to the white tip of his tail.