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chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD last year- striped skunk shows off its toughness.

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White-flash night camera trap photo of a striped skunk making it's way through the snow with flakes falling.
February 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '24- someone either dropped a pom-pom in our backyard or we had our first terrestrial sea urchin visit.

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White-flash night camera trap photo of a striped skunk from behind showing just a big, fluffy, round, mostly white tail.
January 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD (that goes to 11🎸) last year- 3 different underappreciated visitors to a woodchuck burrow.

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#MephitisMephitis #SylvilagusFloridanus #DidelphisVirginiana
Collage of three camera trap images from the same night showing a skunk, cottontail and opossum.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '22 & '24: A sparkling almost fully white skunk & a very muddy coyote.

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Camera trap photo of a striped skunk that is almost fully white. Camera trap photo a large coyote that's just come out of a swamp and has muddy legs
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '22: Flower, Thumper and Bambi together in our backyard (real, not composite)

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B&W night camera trap photo of a striped skunk, eastern cottontail rabbit and white-tailed deer togethe. Cartoon image from Bambi, Thumper and Flower.
December 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '22 a ghost-like coyote and in '24 a mostly white striped skunk, to which we don't give enough love.

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Black and white night camera trap photo of a large coyote looking very light colored. White-flash color night photo of a backyard striped skunk with thick white patches.
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '23: A pair of skunks inspired me to start looking more closely at their stripe patterns (incl 3rd indiv exactly a year later) & in '25 another nice fisher in profile.

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Collage of white-flash night camera trap photos of different skunks showing different stripe patterns B&W night camera trap photo of a fisher crossing a fallen log near a frozen pond.
January 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
callenh.bsky.social
Striped skunk. #StripedSkunk #MephitisMephitis #Skunk #CommonSkunk #Mammal #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin
A skunk crossing a field. It is crossing from the right to the left. It is mostly black but has a white stripe that runs from the top of its head almost to the middle of its back. It also has a very thin white stripe on the front of its head, running between the eyes down from the forehead to just above its nose. Its eye is black and the fur around it and on the side of its face looks more brown than black. The skunk's back is arched and its tail is very bushy. The tail looks about as large as its body. It has some white fur in it and the very end of it is white fur that sticks out from the rest of the tail down to the ground.
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM