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Wildlife Photos. Notes and thoughts related to wildlife photography.

Short-tailed Weasel photo, Coastal Plain, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

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Short-tailed Weasel, Coastal Plain, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
Short-tailed weasel, from our Rafting Trip in ANWR.

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I was lucky enough to spend a few hours one long afternoon with this little short-tailed weasel. I’ve hardly ever had to work as hard as trying to photograph this little fellow.

Weasels are like ferrets on crack. Unbelievable energy.

They stop for a second, glance around, and take off again, top speed, racing around, darting this way and that, pausing momentarily again, before charging headlong into some tiny crevice or tunnel to chase some unhappy lemming or similar-sized rodent.

I followed this weasel down the coastline, as he patrolled the bank by the side of the ocean. He seemed completely unperturbed whether I was close to him or further away. He’d stop, casually glance my way, look around in all directions, and race off again, sometimes towards me (they seem extremely curious), sometimes in 3 directions at once (it would seem).

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Red fox photos, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

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Red fox kit silhouette, Arctic National wildlife refuge, alaska

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Wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. This is a red fox kit, taken just a hundred yards or so from where we camped along the Canning river on the coastal plain. This photo was taken around 3am. It was pretty cloudy and overcast, but the clouds didn’t go all the way to northern horizon, so eventually there was a little break, where the sun dipped just below the cloudline towards the horizon, lit up the land for about 20 minutes, then it began it’s climb back into the sky and disappeared behind the cloud cover.

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