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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 '22 & '24: repeating the triptych with some big bucks.

🦌🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #OdocoileusVirginianus #WTD #deer
Collage of 3 camera trap photos are large male white-tailed deer
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Don't be fooled by today's snow flurries!

❄️🌨☃️🕷🕷🕷
#itsALWAYStickSeason
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Reminds me of this fun project: www.andrewknapp.com#/find-momo-b...
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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OTD (that goes to 11🎸) last year- 3 different underappreciated visitors to a woodchuck burrow.

🦊🐰🦨 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
#MephitisMephitis #SylvilagusFloridanus #DidelphisVirginiana
Collage of three camera trap images from the same night showing a skunk, cottontail and opossum.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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OTD in '22: Bambi & Thumper met up again.

🦌🐰 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
Camera trap photo a white-tailed deer and cottontail rabbit almost nose to nose.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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OTD in '23: a big buck took a rest.

🦊🦌 🍂 🛏️ #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #WTD #OdocoileusVirginianus #WhiteTail
Camera trap photo of a deer buck lying down in the fall leaves
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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OTD in '22 & '24: A sparkling almost fully white skunk & a very muddy coyote.

🦊🦨🐺 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #MephitisMephitis
Camera trap photo of a striped skunk that is almost fully white. Camera trap photo a large coyote that's just come out of a swamp and has muddy legs
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
Camera trap photo of robust raccoon sitting upright in a thick bed of leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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
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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
Camera trap photo of a black bear.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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OTD in '22: a wild turkey plays airplane.

🪶🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #MeleagrisGallopavo
Camera trap photo of a wild turkey running through the leaves with wings spread.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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
Camera trap timelapse photo of a garter snake crossing a beaver dam
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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OTD in '24: Beautiful coyote from a one-time camera location for #SnapShotUSA 2024.

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

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

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #wildlife #coyote
Night camera trap photo of a light-colored coyote knee-deep in the water and camera showing 72F temp.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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FFS, come on @nytimes.com All together now: THERE IS NO DECREASE IN DAYLIGHT (from DST).
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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
Camera trap photo of wild turkeys walking in the snow
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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
Daytime camera trap photo of a gray fox in a blanket of fresh snow with colorful leaves still on the trees
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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
Night camera trap photo of coyote walking nonchalantly past a large cow.
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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OTD in '19 & '24, studies in predator camouflage.

🦊🐱🥸🍂🔍
#trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #VulpesVulpes #CanisLatrans #LynxRufus #Carnivora #redfox #coyote #bobcat #foliage
Camera trap photo of a red fox blending with the fall leaves. Camera trap photo of a coyote blending with the fall leaves. Nighttime white-flash camera trap photo of a two young bobcats blending with the fall leaves.
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Earlier that morning that buck was detected nearby, and within minutes of the bigger, thicker fellah with more points shown in this composite. So NOT a case of -'you should have seen the other guy.'

🦌🤕🥊 #WTD
Composite of 2 camera trap photos of young bucks at the same spot within minutes of each other and one with the broken antler.
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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
Camera trap photo of 3 blond-colored coyotes scavenging on some farm compost piles
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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OTD last year: a lone coyote in one of my favorite spots.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
B&@ camera trap photo of a coyote crossing a log high over a stream
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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OTD in '20: A playful coyote runs right through the middle of campus in the mid afternoon
Camera trap photo of a coyote in the fallen leaves in an open field with buildings and cars in the background.
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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OTD in '19: a very stout fisher.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #PekaniaPennanti #NotaCat #fisher
Camera trap photo of a fisher
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM