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| A steer and a goat walk together in their snowy pasture near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon. Much of southern Oregon received a blast of wintery weather overnight. |
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| A sheep stands in its snowy pasture as a snow squall passes. By the afternoon, all of the snow in the lower elevations had melted away. |
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| A ranch collects a set of triplet lambs from his pasture with their mother following close behind near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. The newborn lambs were having trouble getting enough milk flow from their mother so Holcomb was taking the new family to a nearby heated barn. At the barn they will have a chance to continue nursing. The farmer said the lambs would possibly need to be hand-fed if they couldn’t get enough milk flowing. |
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| A honey bee works to carefully remove a dead companion from its hive on a sunny afternoon on a farm in southwest Oregon. According to researches at Washington State University, a healthy colony may have 60,000 bees going into the fall, but only about 20,000 will survive into spring. |
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| An ensatina salamander slips over a damp mossy log on a forested hillside in southwestern Oregon. Ensatina salamanders are found in the far western areas of North America from British Columbia to Baja, California. The ensatina breathes through its moist thin skin. |
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| On a rainy morning, a herd of wild Roosevelt elk run through an open area on a hillside overlooking the Umpqua River near Elkton in southwestern Oregon. Roosevelt elk are the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass. |
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| My photo of a feral rooster in Honolulu made it into the Guardian's Week in Wildlife Gallery via the photo agency ZUMApress.com. I was on an assignment in Hawaii recently. |
I work with the international editorial photography agency ZUMApress.com. My photos are shared on websites and publications around the world. Often, my work will be showcased on websites focused on the news pictures of the day or week. When looking through the news images from events around the world, my critter pictures lighten the mood and bring a bit of beauty.
