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Chris Whittier
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Dad, husband, wildlife veterinarian, assoc professor of Conservation Medicine, hobby photographer, obsessive camera trapper.
OTD in '22 & '24: repeating the triptych with some big bucks.

🦌🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #OdocoileusVirginianus #WTD #deer
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Don't be fooled by today's snow flurries!

❄️🌨☃️🕷🕷🕷
#itsALWAYStickSeason
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
OTD (that goes to 11🎸) last year- 3 different underappreciated visitors to a woodchuck burrow.

🦊🐰🦨 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
#MephitisMephitis #SylvilagusFloridanus #DidelphisVirginiana
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
OTD in '22: Bambi & Thumper met up again.

🦌🐰 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
OTD in '22 & '24: A sparkling almost fully white skunk & a very muddy coyote.

🦊🦨🐺 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #MephitisMephitis
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
OTD in '22: a photo that makes me smile 😊, a lone ("winter-ready") raccoon enjoying a leaf nest.

🦊🦝 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #ProcyonLotor #NOTaTrashPanda
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
OTD last year, an owl went after a mouse (or similar small animal) but not sure if it succeeded as this was the whole sequence. Actually surprising that the small animal alone seemed to trigger the camera before the owl came into view.

🪶🦉🐁 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm a bit giddy to share some of the results of a new camera trap site in NH (where I grew up) that we added to our annual #SnapshotUSA survey. A lot more bears than I expected including this beauty.

🦊🐻 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #NHwildlife #photooftheday #blackBear #UrsusAmericanus
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
OTD in '22: quite late in the year to see a snake (detected on timelapse) but quite warm. Camera shows 77F but weather data says the high was 68F compared to normal mean of 53F.

🐍 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #ThamnophisSirtalis
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
OTD in '24: Beautiful coyote from a one-time camera location for #SnapShotUSA 2024.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
OTD in '19: Easily the biggest wombat we've seen in Grafton.

🦊🦘 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CastorCanadensis 🦫
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
OTD in '19: a ghostly coyote not afraid of late-night swim...when its >70F!

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #wildlife #coyote
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
FFS, come on @nytimes.com All together now: THERE IS NO DECREASE IN DAYLIGHT (from DST).
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
OTD in '20: the pre-Halloween snow lingered and some adventurous- or just hungry- turkeys were out and about.

🪶🦃❄️🎃 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo #turkey
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
OTD in '20: One of my all-time favorite captures of a (very red) gray fox in the fresh pre-Halloween snow when there was still colorful foliage on the trees.

🦊 🍂❄️🎃 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #UrocyonCinereoargenteus #Fox #GrayFox #snow #foliage
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
OTD in '22: look closely.

Since our campus is a working farm, wildlife conflict w/ livestock is a constant concern but a well-managed issue thanks to a dedicated team managing the farm.

Plus cows are BIG!

🦊🐄 🧑‍🌾 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
OTD in '20 we had the Blond Family of coyotes visiting the compost piles (notice getting their green veg) & in '24 a somewhat gruesome antler injury on a young buck.

🦊 🦌 🤕 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #WTD #OdocoileusVirginianus #coyote #deer
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
OTD last year: a lone coyote in one of my favorite spots.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
OTD in '20: A playful coyote runs right through the middle of campus in the mid afternoon
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Chris Whittier
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October 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM