I made an expedition to Tobermory, Ontario Canda just to make this photograph!
After crawling commando style across a farmer's field, getting drenched by dew in the process, my advance towards a rise and a clean sight line to a red fox den was halted by the sight of this adult fox out of the corner of my eye. She was trotting back to the den after a successful morning hunt. Halfway across the field, she noticed me where I lay and stopped dead in her tracks. Suddenly, she dropped what was in her mouth made a terrible screech of a warning call to the youngsters nearby. She ran to the den and took all the young kits inside. I made a very quick trip up the field to see what she had been carrying. It was the head end of a female mallard duck!
The Cape May warbler breeds in the boreal forests of Canada in the summer, and then winters in the Caribbean where its often found in palm trees. This migrating male perched on a branch above my head at Presque Isle State Park one May afternoon. There is just something a little bit tropical going on here that appealed to me.
