Oh 'Ellk! My name is Mud!

[ChrisGreaves]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH-zzzRG9w

[Rudi]

Reminds me of a toddler who discovered a puddle and is innately programmed to step/jump into it no matter what the footwear...

[ChrisGreaves]

Reminds me of a toddler who discovered a puddle and is innately programmed to step/jump into it no matter what the footwear...

Yep! You gotta wonder, through, whether this toddler (quaddler? kwoddler? ...) was initially spooked by his/her/its reflection in the water.
Or whether it had been fed some magic mushrooms by some nefarious agent ...

[DaveA]

This is really an ELK, which happens to be a member of the "Deer" family.

[GeoffW]

Of course, the elks.

"The elks live up in the mountains and come down once a year for their annual conventions. And you should see them gathered around the water hole, which they leave immediately when they discover it's full of water. They weren't looking for a water hole. They were looking for an elk o hole. "
- Groucho.

[Rudi]

They weren't looking for a water hole. They were looking for an elk o hole."

Well good luck to them; those elk o hole's are hard to find. Thats why, at the water hole edges you always find a lot of black and brown beers and guinness fowls.

[GeoffW]

There's nothing worse than a fowl Guinness.

One might also encounter a tequila mockingbird.

[mishmish3000]

eastern screech owl.JPG

[Rudi]

Skinny dipping....cool!!

[mishmish3000]

Eastern Screech Owls love the water feature (as does almost everyone else in the woods--deer, raccoons, possums, squirrels, bobcats, foxes, cats, ??)

[Rudi]

The image was taken during a blackout (of the sun???) since it was only 3:10pm. Did you guys not pay your celestial electric bill?

[mishmish3000]

Good eye, Rudi.
(The time was messed up on the Trail Cam; it was actually 0310.)