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A doe jumps in a never-ending battle to keep the biting flies away. Photo by Ellen Kenny.
Along the path at the Merrimack River Outdoor Education and Conservation Area in Concord I came across this young deer who seemed to be having trouble with horseflies.
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She’d interrupt her browsing at regular intervals to buck and shake. In one of the close-up pictures I could see that she had a horsefly right between her eyes, and one ear that looked like it was full of mites.
Last Saturday I could hear the otters before I saw them, around the corner of the mill brook, so enthusiastically were they splashing and crunching.
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There were three of them working their way through the cattails and grasses where the brook gets marshy, diving and coming up with a fish each time, then crunching it down and diving again. They move fast.
July on the floodplain!
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