Readers’ wildlife photos and video

I am running out of photos, so please send in any good ones you have. Thanks!

Today’s batch is from reader Ken Phelps, whose IDs are indented. There are several photos and then a salacious video of otters at the bottom. Click the photos to enlarge them.

The first shot is a Vanilla Leaf plant (Achlys triphylla) grimly hanging on to life last October.

The deer photos were taken in July some years ago. It was lounging on the unmanicured mossy rock on which our bedroom is perched. It was watchful but unperturbed. The shot labeled Deer Pose was taken through the bedroom French door. A slight reflection gave it a slightly gauzy boudoir look.

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A close look at the petals of a very yellow flower whose identity I do not recall.

Four mushrooms crowded together:

Ice on a gravelly puddle. Good for a bit of pareidolia:

 

More in the pareidolia vein. Knobbly ice forming on a rocky outcrop, converted to a B&W negative image. A lot of faces, many of them canine, hidden in there:

 

Not wildlife, but our older dog Dixie trying to look sorry about making, and then rooting about in, a mudhole in the garden

And listen to the noise of these mating otters! (Sound up!)