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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.
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.
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!
