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Those were raccoons. They were discussing politics.

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Dec 14, 2023Liked by Robert Leonard

I like your reflections photo, too! I don't recall whether you've said which type of phone you use, but if it's Android, remember that the volume control works as a shutter release, too. I find that much easier than poking at the screen. Of course, any other setting changes do make you touch the screen.

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Thanks Merle! I have a samsung S22 ultra i bought several years ago. I had no idea about the volume button, and will use it from now on when i need to. Hope you are well.

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Robert Leonard

Beautiful!

Still hard to believe a phone camera can provide such authenticity, but there it is.

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A note from Biology Professor Pete Eyheralde from William Penn: "Your mystery noise sounds like raccoons. The tunnel mounds are likely eastern moles. Pocket gophers are extremely rare these days. Kind of like bullsnakes, we still carry them in our collective memory and imagine them to be everywhere, but when we really look we find they've been absent for decades. Loss of connected grassland habitat - first in the mid-1800's with the plowing of the tallgrass prairie and then again in the early 2000's when some of the last scraps were plowed up for the ethanol boom led to their demise." Thanks Pete!

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