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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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Fresh snow OTD last year made for some pretty captures: 4AM fisher, 8AM pair of coyotes & 9AM blondie; 10AM turkey.

🦊🦃 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #PekaniaPennanti #MeleagrisGallopavo
Camera trap photo of a blond colored coyote in the fresh snow White flash night camera trap photo of a fisher in the falling snow Camera trap photo of a wild turkey in the fresh snow Camera trap photo of a two coyotes staring at each other in the fresh snow
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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OTD in '19: Raccoon appreciation pic. I've always felt like this is a quintessential raccoon shot- adapted for this climate, foraging at night, on the edge of a waterway.

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White flash night camera trap image a lone raccoon in the snow at the edge of a pond.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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OTD in '23 & '24- good opp to HL wildlife injuries monitorable w/ camera trap: raccoons w/ injured & non-reflective eye, & stump tail (genetic?); our beloved 3-legged coyote.

🦊🦝👁️🤕 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans #ProcyonLotor
Collage of two camera trap pictures of a raccoon with a stump tail and with a non-reflective, injured eye Collage of two camera trap photos of a 3-legged coyote.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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OTD in '11, I was in Gabon searching (unsuccessfully😢) for an injured forest elephant to treat. We placed a lot cameras & saw a lot of other elephants incl this youngster along w/ what I think was a servaline genet (inserts) on the same night.

🦊🐘 #trailcam #photooftheday #Gabon #LoxodontaCyclotis
Camera trap photo of a young forest elephant from Gabon with inserted crops of a servaline genet in the same place.
December 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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OTD in '19: [SOUND UP] an otter has no issue with the 18F icy pond as it crackles through the ice before the snow covers the dam in time for beaver activity later that day.

🦊🦫🦦 🥶🧊❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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OTD in '19: I love how beavers are relatively oblivious to ice.

🦊🦫🧊 🥶 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Fell behind with some holiday travel but on yesterday's date in '21, one of my favorite coyote posing shots.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans
Camera trap photo of a coyote pausing as it crosses a log bridge.
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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...and someone back before sunset.
Camera trap photo of a bobcat
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Earlier this AM: a pair of bobcats in the first rays of sun.

🦊🐱☀️ #cameratrap #trailcam #NewEnglandWildife #MAwildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #LynxRufus
Camera trap photo of two bobcats
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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OTD last year, I'm thankful for local wildlife including another nice buck in one of my favorite places.

Happy #Thanksgiving

🦊🦌 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
Camera trap photo of a WT buck standing in the forest
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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OTD in '23: how it starts.

🦊🦌 😗👄 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
B&W night camera trap photo of white tail buck and doe nose-to-nose
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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OTD in '23: more great captures of a resident blond coyote in the fall leaf litter...one included in our 2026 calendar.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
Daylight camera trap photo of a very blond coyote in the fall leaves. Daylight camera trap photo of a very blond coyote approaching the camera in the fall leaves.
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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OTD last year: not sure if the same fisher as yesterday, but clearly the same one making the AM rounds by this camera.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #NOTaCat #PekaniaPennanti
Collage of two camera trap images ~3 hours apart showing the same fisher passing by with close-up inserted.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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OTD last year- another fisher visit.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #NOTaCat
B&W night camera trap photo of a fisher mugging for the camera
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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OTD in '22: a fabulous coyote.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #Floof
a B&W night camera trap photo of a floofy coyote
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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OTD in '23: snowy bunny.

🦊🐰❄️ #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
White-flash, night camera trap photo of an eastern cottontail with snowflakes falling.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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OTD last year: a handsome red fox hunts on the perimeter of the cow pasture.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #VulpesVulpes
B&W night camera trap photo a fox at dusk hunting near a fenced cow pasture.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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OTD in '22- just a fun shot of coyotes playing by the farm compost piles.

🦊#trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans
Camera trap photo of 3 different colored coyotes running by a compost pile including one silhouetted while jumping in the air.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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OTD in '19: A beaver demonstrates her strength, determination, bipedalism, and useful webbed feet.

🦊🦫 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CastorCanadensis
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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OTD in '23: [bottom] Mama bobcat with a fresh kill (whose eyes still shine) that she delivered [top] to her kittens for a meal.

🦊🐱☠️🍽️ #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #LynxRufus
Collage of 2 camera trap photos with a bobcat carrying a kill and later 3 pairs of bobcat eyes with some possibly feeding.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A: fisher. Probably the same individual I posted yesterday (cameras ~400m apart)
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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OTD last year- guess who?

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday
B&W camera trap photo of some animals face very close to the camera showing and eye and ear.
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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OTD last year: a slightly grizzled fisher sniffed around the old dam.

🦊 #trailcam #cameratrap #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #PekaniaPennanti #NOTaCat #fisher
Camera trap photo of a fisher during the day on an old beaver dam
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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OTD in '22: Two big coyotes sat for a moment by a tree; two much bigger cows later sniffed them out.

🦊 🐄#trailcam #cameratrap #backyardwildlife #NewEnglandWildlife #MAwildlife #photooftheday #CanisLatrans
Collage of tree camera trap images of a pair of coyotes and then two cows sniffing where the coyotes sat.
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I love that we call them ecosystem engineers....I'm just not sure what engineering school some of them attended because they clearly skipped some basic physics! 😜

(RTH🪶 w/ kill thrown in for fun)
Camera trap photo of tree felled by beavers....but caught in another tree.
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM