Monday in Nature, July 13, 2020

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Baby Squirrel

 

Painted Bunting seen in Austin, Texas

 

Jupiter's moons in unusual alignment last night by Tom Yin, on Flickr

 

Nikon D800e, Tamron 150-600mm @600mm, f6.3, 1/1000sec, ISO 1100

 

Yellow-eyed Junco

 

Black crowned night heron:

 

In my photo of Jupiter's moons, I forgot to mention that the unusual alignment is that the 4 Galilean moons are in their natural order of orbital distance from Jupiter, from left to right, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

 

I remember them by the mnemonic "Il Est Grand, Charles".

 

Mink with crayfish in mouth