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Fall fauna
By now, most of us have cleaned up the last of the limbs off lawns and driveways that were felled by our pre-Halloween snowstorm. Perhaps this is a harbinger of the upcoming winter. The wildlife activity in the area shows that animals are getting ready for the cold and snow, each in its own way. Here’s what animals were doing what during late October.
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| TRR photo by Scott Rando | |
| This monarch butterfly rests on a sapling locust tree along the Delaware on a late October afternoon. Hopefully, this male (indicated by the two black dots on its inner wings) migrated far enough south to escape the snow storm that hit one week later.
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| TRR photo by Scott Rando | |
| This young male deer with a dark winter coat seems well camouflaged as he rests in brown grass and fallen leaves. With the velvet covering the antlers long since gone, this deer is ready for the rutting season.
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| A flock of Canada geese in the river rests and forages for food. Most of the geese seen on lakes and rivers now are migrating south. Soon, they will be joined at these aquatic stopovers by waterfowl such as buffleheads and mergansers.
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