Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Ondatra

I remember being so puzzled when I saw a patch of red moving across the pond at Bridlewood on 7 June 2011. When it got closer, I realized that it was a Muskrat carrying a bouquet of Carnations (that someone in one of the nearby houses obviously threw out) in its mouth, lol! Ha, ha, what with my female Mallard with beautiful snowflakes on her feathers, and now this .....

Yesterday, we saw a total of seven Muskrats down at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. The light happened to be beautiful as this one nibbled on the bunch of greens clutched tightly in its tiny hands. I was tempted to crop it even closer, but I liked the tree reflections in the small hole of water that had melted in the thin layer of ice. Thanks, Randy - you two guys were so pleasant, allowing me to "intrude" on you, while you clicked away. Thinking about this just now, it made me chuckle to think that WE could have been the subject for someone with a camera. Me with my little point-and-shoot camera, with a guy with a 600 mm on one side and a guy on the other side with a 500 mm, LOL!!! "An adult muskrat is about 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 inches) long, almost half of that tail, and weighs from 0.7 to 1.8 kg (1.5 to 4 lb). Muskrats are much smaller than beavers (Castor canadensis), with whom they often share their habitat." From Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat