Beautiful babies

Finding wild animals can be challenging.  Finding wild babies is a rare and precious gift. 

Animals need to grow up fast if they're going to survive.  So, I get very excited on those rare occasions where I can capture a baby on camera.  Yesterday was one of those days--on a walk in Berlin, I looked down and saw an itty bitty snapping turtle, coated in sand.  A quick Google search confirmed that snappers do, in fact, hatch between August and October and I'd observed a large snapping turtle in that very area years ago.   

As the circle of life continues to turn in this crazy world, there's something about seeing a new and innocent little baby that gives one hope.  

Newly hatched snapping turtle

Fox kit

Canada goose chick

Moose calf

Hungry osprey baby

Newly hatched painted turtle

Baby bird

White tailed deer fawn

Loon chick