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	Posted 3/15/03 Taken 3/14/03 The muted colors of this image suggest a quiet mood, like that of this mallard drake...


	Posted 3/15/03 Taken 3/14/03 A doppelganger is a "double" of a living being that, experts on such things say, has something to do with light and shadow. This trout has one. The contrast of the image is low, but that's the way it was. You'll just have to peer into the water...


	Posted 3/15/03 Taken 3/7/03 The muskrat has nice warm fur and tens of millions of muskrats have involuntarily assisted the fur industry in supplying raw materials for soft comfortable wares. But muskrats continue their ancient burrowing and sniffing out edibles in all but the coldest weather. I don't think they see or hear really well, or perhaps they only pay close attention to the messages from their noses. This fellow seems young and confident. The snow did not hinder a food run up the bank. Like a racoon, he "washed" the food he found, eating it in shallow water,


	Posted 3/15/03 Taken 3/7/03 A story goes with this one. I was taking picures of a large hawk perched in a tree some distance away. As I snapped a picture, the hawk powered away from his limb and flew in my direction. As I lowered the camera, my vision was filled with pigeons soaring by close to the ground and the hawk intersected one of them, talons outstreched. There was a small explosion of feathers and they fell out of the sky, but the hawk had missed his target. One of the feathers fell point-first in a snow bank a few feet from me. Here it is, just as I saw it then.


	Posted 3/15/03 Taken 3/7/03 And here's the disappointed hawk -- lunch was so near... This is a poor image, when I have a better one, I'll post it. But this at least has the advantage of relevancy.


	Pigeons are much taken with the idea that the world needs a lot of pigeons. When they are not eating or soaring in flocks just for the heck of it, they are busy nesting and raising pigeon babies, and doing that in most any time of year. This handsome pigeon was on the way back to the nest to share in warming the eggs. The other of us says if pigeons were rare, people would ooh and aah over them, but as it is they rarely look.