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Chris Whittier
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Dad, husband, wildlife veterinarian, assoc professor of Conservation Medicine, hobby photographer, obsessive camera trapper.
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OTD in '24, fisher with a snowy face crosses a log bridge.
🦊❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #PekaniaPennanti #NOTaCat
Daytime camera trap picture of a fisher crossing a stream on a log in the snow.
February 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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OTD in '24, red fox with a snack.

🦊 #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #VulpesVulpes
B&W night camera trap photo of a red fox in the snow with a small rodent in its mouth.
February 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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On Valentines Day in '23, gorgeous bobcat in gorgeous golden hour light.

🦊🐱 #CATurday #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #LynxRufus #GoldenHour
Daytime camera trap photo of a bobcat crossing a stream in late afternoon sun.
February 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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OTD last year- striped skunk shows off its toughness.

🦊🦨 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MephitisMephitis ❄️
White-flash night camera trap photo of a striped skunk making it's way through the snow with flakes falling.
February 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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OTD in '23- hard to imagine a ~60F bird bath day when today's high will be ~34F and there's 2 ft of snow here!

🪶🐦 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #Corvid #Corvus
Daytime camera trap photo of 2 crows bathing in a run-off stream.
February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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OTD last year, quite a large red fox in our suburban yard.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #VulpesVulpes @browningtrailcams.bsky.social
Crop of a B&W night camera trap photo of a red fox in the snow.
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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OTD in '24, bobcat on an afternoon stroll showing off its camouflage.

🦊🐱 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
Daytime camera trap photo of a bobcat walking through a landscape of fallen leaves matching its color.
February 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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OTD in '20- an otter is surprised by the white flash.

🦊🦦 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #LontraCanadensis
White-flash night camera trap photo of a NA river otter crossing down a beaver dam.
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Reposting this from June as probably the most #SuperbOWL shot we've managed.

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OTD in '22: I posted an earlier photo of a great horned owl 🦉in flight at this spot last month but a few weeks greener & this time just the owlets testing out their wings- in the 'Endor' fern forest.

#trailcam 🐦🪶
#cameratrap #wildlife #owls #nature #Massachusetts #MAwildlife #NewEngland #GHO #birds
Camera trap photo of an owlet in flight over another on a log in ferny forest
February 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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OTD in '19, big male fisher sniffing around for a mate.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

#GoPATS! 🏈
February 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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OTD last year, very red-eyed deer.

🦊🦌👁️🔴🧟 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #OdocoileusVirginianus
White-flash night camera trap photo of a white-tailed deer sniffing the snow in front of the camera with a very strong red-eye reflection
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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OTD in '24, gorgeous bobcat on the prowl at the old beaver dam.

🦊🐱 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #LynxRufus
B&W night camera trap photo of a bobcat coming towards the camera as it cross down over a remnant beaver dam.
February 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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OTD in '23, the black & tan coyote visitor bravely crossing some questionable ice.

🦊🧊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
Daylight camera trap photo of a black and tan colored eastern coyote crossing a partially frozen wetland.
February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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OTD in '22- the first 3-legged appearance of what I'm convinced is the same coyote. First seen on campus with a broken, dangling leg in Nov '20, then like in this capture, then mostly a few miles away in my yard. Last seen ~May with a mate.

🦊❄️🩼🤕 #trailcam #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans
Daytime camera trap photo of a coyote in the snow missing its right front leg. Collage of camera trap photos of a coyote with a broken then missing leg from Nov '20 through Marcg '22
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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OTD last year, big-headed opossum doesn't mind some snow.

🦊🦘❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #DidelphisVirginianus
White-flash night camera trap photo of an opossum on the snow walking towards the camera
February 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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And my #2 favorite video of a pair of woodchucks being visited by a gray squirrel cousin.

Happy #GroundhogDay

🦊🐿️ #trailcam #backyardwildlife
#NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #cameratrap #woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig #groundpig #whistler #CanadaMarmot #moonack #weenusk #landbeaver
February 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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AUDIO UP!

Here's my #1 favorite backyard woodchuck video to celebrate today's #GroundhogDay

🦊🐿️ 🎶 #woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig #groundpig #whistler #CanadaMarmot #moonack #weenusk #LandBeaver #chirping
February 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Happy #GroundhogDay!

Here's an annual piece I contributed to:

now.tufts.edu/2019/01/28/f...
February 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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I'll post some groundhog/woodchuck content later but keeping w/ my "OTD" effort... last year a pair of white tails.

🦊🦌 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #OdocoileusVirginianus #WTD
Daytime camera trap photo of two white tailed deer facing in different directions.
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Happy #NationalSerpentDay.

Northern water snake, Grafton, MA, 2020.

🐍 #WildlifePhotography #Herps #Herpetology #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife
Photo of a water snake peeking out of the water with a strong green reflection across the water and some plants breaking up the smoothness.
February 1, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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OTD last year, daytime raccoon dip.

🦊🦝🌡️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #ProcyonLotor
Daytime camera trap photo of a raccoon crossing a stream chest-deep in the water with some snow on the ground.
February 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Happy #InternationalZebraDay

Plains zebras, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, 2023.

🦊🦓
Photo of a close zebra head and neck with more blurred zebras in the background.
February 1, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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OTD in '21, red fox with a muskrat meal.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #VulpesVulpes
Daytime camera trap photo of a red fox carrying a dead muskrat through the snow.
January 31, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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OTD in '24, a pred-dawn fisher makes it way across the former beaver dam.

🦊❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #PekaniaPennanti
Early morning white flash/color camera trap photo of a fisher (with faint eyeshine) crossing an old beaver dam with a few inches of snow on the ground.
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM