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mother’s day treat: critters!

We were visited by the raccoon family last night; mother and four little ones. Please excuse the ‘painterly’ blur; it’s kinda hard to handhold a 300mm lens for 1/3s exposure. Plus, wee raccoons are speedy little things.

mom and baby raccoon

wee raccoon

wee raccoons

wee raccoon

This one was taken a few days back (of the mother alone) in better light:

mom raccoon

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2 Responses to “mother’s day treat: critters!”

  1. We Saw a Chicken … » Blog Archive » my, how you’ve grown! Says:
    June 8th, 2006 at 22:19:25
    [...] One of the little raccoons walked along the back wall this morning. [...]
  2. We Saw a Chicken … » Blog Archive » didn’t make it Says:
    June 13th, 2006 at 19:44:47
    [...] One of the little guys didn’t make it. There’s a sad little grey fuzzy corpse in the back yard, already pulsing with disco rice and greenbottles. [...]

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