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The Red Fox is the most common fox species in Minnesota. After spending the last few hours hunting for a meal to last him through the day, this particular fox curled up in an emerging bean field to take a nap.
Many people assume foxes always hide during the day and roam at night. But in rural areas where they tend to be safer, foxes often nap in open, sunlit areas, especially early in the growing season before bean and cornfields fill in.
I didn’t know that foxes don’t simply rely on rabbits and rodents for eating. They will also eat a lot of grasshoppers, beetles, and even earthworms when they are busy trying to fill up their hungry kits in spring and early summer.
Foxes will save themselves some work when it comes to creating a foxhole to hide, store food, or raise kits. They have no shame and will reuse woodchuck holes and are experts in remodeling them to suit their needs. Badger dens are also a prime candidate to be reused as a fox den.
Our DNR doesn’t give an estimate for the total number of red foxes in our state but in view of the strong numbers, they allow up to 100,000 foxes to be harvested through hunting and trapping each year.
Foxes face a lot of obstacles in the wild, including disease, harvesting, predators, and collisions with vehicles.
Many do not live past five years of age in the wild, while ones in captivity live a dozen years or more, with the oldest living fox clocking in at 21 years of age.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
So weird that even lion cubs will spend up to 20 hours of the day sleeping or resting.
They are the laziest of the big cats apparently!
I caught this one napping on the tree in front of the deck today, probably trying to stay out of the wind, it feels like January out there, windy and very cold!
Name: Black-naped oriole
Scientific: Oriolus chinensis
Malay: Burung Kunyit Besar / Dendang Selayang
Family: Oriolidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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Black-naped orioles can be found in South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore.
They are the only orioles in Singapore.9 There are, however, two subspecies, though they are virtually indistinguishable in the field. The migratory population breeds in Indo-china and migrates into the north of the Malay Peninsula after the winter season. The residential population, which is a well-established species in Singapore, were a result of an invasion from Indonesia as well as escape of caged birds in the 1920s.
The black-naped oriole can be seen in green spaces such as parks and gardens and at the edge of forests. It is one of the most common bird species in Singapore and consistently makes the top 10 in the annual Singapore Bird Census.
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I didn't get many decent shots of all three together! Either mom was in the nest with them or she was sitting in a separate tree! Here I finally got one :-)! A great horned owl family taken in Pennsylvania, USA!
Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis)
This Hobby has become an almost permanent resident of the Powell Drive Park over the last week. This morning it was having a nap. By the looks of the distended crop it had eaten a fine breakfast.
Cargo on sunday afternoon is a funny place, people are lunging about having a few drinks to sound a pumping techno / house sound track. Some people have clearly not been home all weekend. In fact me and rockcake had a little snooze at one point. Makes a change I have seen people told that if the fall asleep in Fabric they would have to leave. Sometimes all you need is a little party / power nap to be fighting fit again.
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1) Thanks a MILLION dear Meino NL Meino for choosing this Panda picture to be the Cover Page of The Galaxy & Stars L4 on 24 Nov 2025 😍😍😍
I think Cai Tao will be so delighted for all the LOVES he got :)
2) Many thanks to José Roberto ( tipiro ) for choosing this picture to be displayed on the front page of COTH Group for 2 weeks starting August 29, 2025.
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Name: Cai Tao
It's a male giant panda, born on 04 Aug 2010 so he is 15 years old by now ...
He was given by the China Government to Safari Park Bogor - Indonesia and arrived on 28 Sep 2017.
He looks great and healthy.
Taken at Safari Park, Cisarua - West Java - Indonesia in Aug 2025.
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