Chris Whittier

White flash camera trap photo of a skinny red fox at night

OTD last rear: A red fox- or maybe a stick figure of one- strutted through my yard.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

Camera trap photo of an eastern coyote during the day

OTD in'22: a beautiful coyote sniffs around an area otters use as a latrine.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #canis #coyote

Camera trap photo of a green heron on log

OTD in '22: a green heron shows off its actual neck length. This was a 2024 #TuftsMCM Critter Cams calendar shot.

🪶🐦 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #heron #Butorides

Camera trap photo of a fisher during the day in MA

OTD (...at least by incorrect timestamp* 😉) we got a nice daytime capture of a young #fisher, which is the Aug photo for our current 2025 #TuftsMCM Cummings Critter Cams calendar.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #Pekania

*it was actually mid-Sep of '22

collage of camera trap photos of birds in flight

OTD in '22 & '23: lots of #birds in flight.
1. Great-horned owl (methinks?) carrying a squirrel or cottontail
2. Eastern bluebird
3. Northern flicker
4. American robin (same place, different time)
5. Hairy(?) woodpecker (ditto)

#trailcam 🪶🐦🦉 #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #photooftheday

Composite of 2 camera trap images of coyotes carrying what appear to be baby beavers they have presumably killed.

For the second time (4 years, 1 week, & 1 day later and ~100 m away) we appear to have captured a #coyote preying on a baby beaver- at least that's what the new one looks like to me? 😶

Thoughts?
And plug for Who Eats Whom? @inaturalist.bsky.social

#trailcam 🦊🦫 💀 #cameratrap
#NewEnglandWildlife

Camera trap photo of an airborne chipmunk running down a log.

OTD in '23: maybe a flying squirrel? 😜

🦊🐿️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

Screen capture of camera trap video of a woodchuck climbing a tree.

OTD in '23: a woodchuck proving its place in the squirrel family by climbing a tree!

🦊🐿️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig

Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease

🌟 It's being hailed as the “discovery of the decade” by Drew Harvell, a disease ecologist at the University of Washington and member of the research team behind the breakthrough.

After years of mystery, scientists have finally pinpointed the cause of sea star wasting disease! #marinescience #ocean

👏👏👏
(Note to self: move from the Mystery Disease bucket in #TuftsMCM class assignment...finally)

🌊⭐🐟😷

Camera trap photo of an opossum crossing a beaver dam

OTD last year, a rare opossum visitor to the beaver dam but one smart enough to know the best place to cross a waterway. Opossum is also another name from Native Americans, in this case Powhatan from VA.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #opossum #VirginiaOpossum #Didelphis

Camera trap photo of 2 NA river otters crawling up a beaver dam

OTD in '19, no less than a family of 4 otters passed by the- then functioning- beaver dam.

🦊 🦦 #trailcam #cameratrap
#NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #aquatic #NAriverOtter #lontra #lontracanadensis

Camera trap photo of a bobcat walking away down a log

OTD last year, #bobcat looking TALL.

🦊🐈 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

Camera trap photo of the underside of a gray squirrel as it jumps off the camera in front of the lens.

OTD in '24- continuing the squirrels at weird angles w/ this gray vaulting off the top of the camera.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #backyardwildlife #EGS #squirrel

Camera trap photo of flying squirrel climbing a tree after raccoons had tipped the camera to point towards the ground

OTD in '22- following up on yesterday's theme. DYK what animal this is?

🦊🐿️ #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

Camera trap photo looking down from a tree at a raccoon on the ground directly below

OTD in '22 some naughty 🦝 raccoons had tipped a camera down earlier leading to some interesting shots like this.

#trailcam 🦊 #trashpanda #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #cameratrap #raccoon

Camera trap photo of 2 woodchucks near their burrow.

OTD in '23: Pair of 'chucks.

🦊 #trailcam #backyardwildlife
#NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #cameratrap #photooftheday
#woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig #groundpig #whistler #CanadaMarmot #moonack #weenusk #landbeaver

Camera trap photo of a bobcat sitting on a log crossing a stream.

OTD in '21, bobcat on a log bridge. Only had a #trailcam there for a brief period but had a couple great crossings like this.

🦊🐱 #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
#Bobcat

Camera trap photo of an animal's forehead and part of it's an eye, probably a great-horned owl.

OTD in '22: could be bigfoot, could be a chupacabra, maybe a feral child, but I'm pretty sure it's an extreme close-up of a great-horned owl.

🪶🦉 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #cryptozoology #closeup #mystery

Camera trap photo of river otters

OTD in '21: NA river otters descend the old beaver dam.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #otters #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife

They do both look a bit miffed actually!

Camera trap photo of a robin in flight

Camera trap photo of a bobcat on a log

Another 2 day catch-up...on yesterday & today's dates from the same spot in '22, angry bird robin & bobcat.

🦊 🪶 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife

Camera trap pic of a skunk

Camera trap photo of perched juvenile hawk

Catching up for missed day again...on yesterday & todays' dates in '24 a backyard juv skunk 🦨 & in '22 what I think is a juv red-tailed hawk?

🦊🪶🐦
#trailcam #backyardwildlife #cameratrap #newEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #hawk #skunk

Camera trap photo of a squirrel and unknown bird in flight

OTD in '22: the most interesting pic I have is a bit of mystery? In addition to the calm gray squirrel, a bird with black and white wing feathers in flight and of unknown size. No other pics. Vulture? Puffin? IBWP?

🪶🐦 #trailcam #mysterybird #cameratrap #EGS #IBWP

3 image composite of a weasel investigating a trap set for squirrels during the day

OTD in '22: composite of a long-tailed #weasel looking for a free meal in a squirrel trap. A day prior we found a chipmunk dead & wounded in a trap, and the only thing I could think of was a weasel...then saw these photos.

🦊 #trailcam #backyardwildlife #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife

OTD in '22: deer were falling out of the sky.

🦊🦌 #trailcam #cameratrap #WTD #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday

Camera trap daytime photo composite of a coyote missing her right front leg.

OTD last year: rare daylight sighting (composite) of our 3-legged coyote friend where we can actually see her fairly gray face.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #coyote #survivor

I've been using other LI (AmpTorrent & EBL) but not yet ready to invest in turning over a couple hundred NiMH until they're dead! I've been running different NiMH in Browning cams since Jan '24 and 3/4 are still at ~50%, one died in March.

Camera trap photo of raccoons on a beaver dam in daylight

OTD last year: a mother raccoon forages with her kits on the old dam. DYK a group of raccoons is called a 'gaze.' 🥰

🦝🦝🦝🦝
🦊 #trailcam #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #cameratrap

I've been mostly testing different NiMH batteries in the same cameras. I think it's generally true that WF use more power than IR, but hard to test that as few companies make the exact same cam w/ diff flash options. I'll look up the GardePro testing at TCP.