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HONORABLE MENTION AMATEUR ENTRY | WILDLIFE
GUARDING HER NEST by Jackie King
This female cardinal was keeping watch over her babies
in a holly tree.
HONORABLE
MENTION
AMATEUR ENTRY
| WILDLIFE
HIDING by
Stan Washlesky
I couldn’t help
but laugh when
this young
pileated wood-pecker
thought
it was hiding
from me on the
other side of my
fence late one
afternoon.
HONORABLE MENTION AMATEUR ENTRY | WILDLIFE
SUNLIT GREAT EGRET PREENING by Leesa Beckmann
I was walking around the pond at Airlie Gardens when I
noticed this great egret preening his feathers. Being backlit
by the sun made him look so majestic.
